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Old 29th Jul 2004, 19:21
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The captain is in prison as well.

As far as Perf A and flying on one engine are concerned: the only operative hydraulic pump that day was on the engine that failed (oops ). Hence the manual gear extension procedure was used. However, once on very short final, the crew still did not have the three greens. The captain decided to go around. It so happened that the gear was actually almost completely down. So that was one single-engine go-around with mucho drag out there, which probably explains why the bloody thing simply couldn't stay airborne.
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