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Old 4th December 2007 | 12:23
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Judd
 
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The main reasoning behind this is that an analysis of approach incidents/accidents over many years showed that in 75% of cases the Captain was flying the aircraft when these incidents/accidents occurred. So why not get the FO to the fly the approach?
Obviously the captains were all sub-standard and poorly trained otherwise why would they crash. Perhaps swapping seats would have fixed this appalling record? One presumes that all of the accidents referred to here were non-automatic approaches because aircraft do not normally crash on fully automatic approaches and landings
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