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Old 13th Mar 2020, 08:08
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Originally Posted by txl
Reuters reporting that according to the preliminary report, the Dutch co-pilot did not understand guidance in Turkish and failed to brake in time:
Careful ,. Newspaper account trying to shift part of the blame to the foreign copilot. . Will would need to check carefully the recordings but first the captain was Turkish national , so he should have understood if anything was said in Turkish , second , ATC does not "allow" to land, just clear, meaning the approach path runway is clear . The decision to land is the PIC not ATC..as to braking "in time" or not , we'll see. .
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