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Old 16th Dec 2019, 06:57
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morno
 
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Originally Posted by 3 Holer
No, that statement is incorrect and written by a person or persons with a limited command of the english language and even less knowledge about aircraft navigation systems.

The following statement, however, is correct:

"In my opinion therefore, the single dominant and effective cause of the disaster was the mistake made by those airline officials who programmed the aircraft to fly directly at Mt Erebus and omitted to tell the aircrew. That mistake is directly attributable, not so much to the persons who made it, but to the incompetent administrative airline procedures which made the mistake possible."
........and the fact that the captain was at an altitude that he shouldn’t have been.

Admit it mate
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