Originally Posted by
Clandestino
Yeah! We need to throw away all the PCishness and ask ourselves the hard question: would the crew originally trained by the USAF ever be able to plonk their DC-9-32 N10556 onto the KIAH runway 27, gear up, at Vapp+61 kt and let it slide 6850 ft down the runway till it stops in the grass, 140 ft left of the runway centerline?
Number of fatalities in that accident in 1996 was,
let me check, oh, yes, here it is: 0
"Any landing that you can walk away from ..."
(But I'll go with 'sometimes, better lucky than good' on that one)
The Co pilot three times suggested going around before the captain took control, and landed, gear-up,
One would hope that in the last quarter of a century, CRM has improved a bit at Continental.
Is learning from someone else's mistake acceptable, or must one make one's own mistake to learn the same lesson and then decide "Yeah, that could happen to me too"?
Answers on a post card, if you please.