Originally Posted by
alf5071h
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"Why', how did this situation differ from similar marginal approaches with a satisfactory landing.
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I doubt from the information available that this was a ‘marginal approach’. In other words the approach was not stable under generally accepted criteria and merited a go around and diversion.
As things are never black and white, a marginal approach might be regarded as in the ‘grey area’ where on a good day ‘your get away with it’ given the built in safety margin into performance criteria. Regrettably that was clearly not the case here.
The holes in the “Swiss Cheese” unfortunately aligned.
I am not entirely convinced that a ‘satisfactory landing‘ always occurs from a marginal landing.
Satisfactory would infer that the outcome (from a marginal approach) was never in doubt.
Again not the case here.