Chuuk (Truk) NOT Guam!
The latest scuttlebuck coming back from the most reliable sources of all (The Crew Room) appear to confirm that the National Captain and Phillipino First Officer were both relatively inexperienced on type and had only flown into Chuuk once before ...... totally unconfirmed of course!
What does make more sense is that BOTH PILOTS were (supposedly) concentrating solely on trying to locate the runway ahead in heavy showers and NOBODY was watching inside to see how the airspeed/altitude were going!
The well known "are we visual or ain't we?" Of interest will be if the GPWS ever activated as it would have been on the 737 for sure, hopefully operational and should have provided more than adequate warning to the crew???
Also appears that the 737 was fully configured for landing and splashed down in quite shallow water - not a bad landing really all things considered!
Including the very recent DHC8 BBQ at Mendi, PX has now lost FIVE (5) hulls in less than a decade - pilot error in them all with the 737 yet to be decided maybe -and dare I say it but after 25 years with PX, I can assure you all that the C & T is a major concern to everybody in the pilot corp!
The new CEO (ex Qantas) will have his hands full pulling PX out of the ditch and will hopefully address the ever-worsening C & T situation plus what appears to be the usual rapid localization of national Pilots into the LHS!
PX! One day a rooster - the next a feather duster!
A true tragedy!
Last edited by RetiredTooEarly; 2nd Oct 2018 at 07:42.
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