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Old 12th Jun 2018, 17:09
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Let's just say that recent events seem to show a pattern of Canadian crews trying to land on something other than the runway (hillside/Resolute, approach lights/Halifax, occupied taxiway/SFO, water or hotel/St. Maarten). A tiny percentage of flights, certainly, but it does seem to recur.

I think this (and the TSB's "sympathetic" attitude) may stem from Canada's internal aviation environment, which, like Indonesia, involves a lot of necessary flying to remote places inaccesible to any other form of transport, often with bad weather. If one doesn't "press on regardless" at such places, people may go hungry. The problem is if that becomes a habit and transitions to flights elsewhere.
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