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Old 20th Apr 2007, 09:31
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HundredPercentPlease
 
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I think it would be wise to take a step backwards, and have a broader look around.

The management of winds like these (pretty tame really) is something that pilots do all the time. Occasionally, despite our best efforts at correcting any profile issues, we just have to accept defeat and go around.

However, landing the aircraft in the state this captain had it in and hoping to get away with it, is about as likely as landing it upside down and hoping to get away with it.

The PF here ignored all the clues. Hints from the FO and a slightly duff intermediate profile. But sometimes we miss clues.

But then he continued to ignore real hard facts. Any normal person would react positively to any one of the hard facts:

Totally wrong and unrecoverable config.
Totally wild and unrecoverable speed.
FO instructing a go around.

To ignore all of these must surely point to a fundamental human factors issue. I'm not a medical person, but something that caused the normal thinking/hearing/seeing/reacting process to stop for a period of time.

Is this conceivable?
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