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Old 7th Oct 2020, 00:44
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An Accident Investigation Board found that the principle reason for the crash was the pilot setting a “speed hold” of 202 knots indicated airspeed for the landing, which was 50 knots too fast, while the jet's approach angle was too shallow, according to the report released Sept. 30.
It would be very interesting to read more about why this speed of 202 knots was selected (apparently incorrectly) by the pilot and why the aircraft's abnormally high speed was (apparently) ignored??
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