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Old 20th Oct 2019, 04:04
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megan
 
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A number of reports here. The UN remains open minded as to cause, but I concur that CFIT as a result of black hole approach being the cause. Significant that the airport is not visible from the crash site and the visibility was reported as 5-10 miles in smoke haze. Distance from crash site to runway threshold is 7.8NM. Highly significant too I think that both the co-pilot and flight engineer had flown 17 hours in the previous 24. Tired??

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