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Old 31st May 2006, 22:42
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YesTAM
 
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By absolute coincidence, this video was discussed on a forum totally unconnected to PPrune and the following comment was made by a colleague who's veracity I don't doubt.

"Actually that was what we call Korean-Korean. They had a lot of trouble in that incarnation. Too much incesteous relationships with the military which was fundamentally a cowboy club. It got so bad, we had to "decertify" them as a codeshare member and ultimately our retired Vice President of Flight Operations was sent over to take over as the CEO of Korean. We now call it Greenburg-Korean after him. He had to kick some butt and take some names, fired a bunch of people. He also changed some culture that resulted in substantial pay raises for the pilots but at the same time put a lot of heat on them. The result was after a review by our code share team they were readmitted. This is one of the very good parts of international code share alliances is we audit each others operations to insure a high quality product both operationally and marketing wise.

Disagree XXXXX, it was awful and sheer luck nobody got seriously hurt. We don't accept "any landing you walk away from is a good landing" criteria. We look for a variety a parameters including "stabilized approach". If you look at every landing accident in the past 20 years including the most recent a Chicago Midway, the stabilized approach criteria was not adhered to.

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