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Old 24th Aug 2018, 16:06
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Cant see that the report has been posted:

Risk of collision with terrain WestJet Boeing 737-800, C-GWSV Princess Juliana International Airport, Sint Maarten 07 March 2017

Any of this sound familiar?

The features of a hotel located to the left of the runway, such as its colour, shape, and location, made it more conspicuous than the runway environment and led the crew to misidentify it as the runway..

Because the occurrence was originally assessed by WestJet as a non-reportable event, the cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder data were overwritten and were not available to the investigation.





The reference to the hotel seems to be suspect, they never lined up on the hotel.



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