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Old 17th Jan 2007, 19:37
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Originally Posted by Vibrant
The weather was marginal, CAT 1 minima but the cloud base was borderline. I briefed that whether or not we are visual, we shall land the plane (autoland). At minima we did not see any lights but as briefed we landed.
Can anyone cite an instance of a fatal accident during an autoland, blind or not? I can't think of one. I can think of many examples of aircraft lost to inflight fires. I think your risk management was sound.
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