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Old 25th Dec 2019, 01:32
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B737 Go-Around tragedy. Pilot error all over again

https://mak-iac.org/upload/iblock/45...vq-bbn_eng.pdf
Suggestion.
Those readers who prefer to quickly get to the nexus of accident reports should skip the peripheral information which forms a great part of this first class investigation. This is where speed reading skills come to the fore.
Otherwise by the time you gets to the guts of what went wrong in what should have been a normal go-around in a Boeing 737, you will suffer from reading fatigue, despite numerous cups of coffee.

One way or another, depending on your bent, eventually you will reach that part of the report where the investigation sets up a series of go-around scenarios in the simulator and had ten 737 pilots fly the same procedure in IMC. Those results are seriously thought provoking and I wouldn't mind betting a high percentage of current 737 pilots today would likely have similar results. Some would even crash.

Designers of simulator training syllabi would do well to learn from this report and ensure ample time is allotted to teach IMC low level go-around procedures as part of type rating training and proficiency checks.
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