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Old 11th Apr 2007, 11:36
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GA200 seems to be a case of the good master and his scared apprentice... even a good master can make a mistake, if the apprentice is too scared, enough said
Let's cut the crap, shall we. There is every reason to believe the captain made a horrible mess of the approach and thought by relying on Lady Luck (or whatever Deity he believed in) he could get away with it. He had ample opportunities to go-around right down to when he came over the fence. But he didn't and people died a horrible death as a result. History repeats itself in aviation and there have been no shortage of similar bad flying resulting in crashes. The "scared apprentice" should never have been in the cockpit in the first place and his position as second in command was a joke. He too had ample opportunity to act decisively to prevent the captain intent on pressing on regardless of the potential consequences. But he, for whatever reasons, totally abrograted his moral and legal responsibilities as second in command.
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