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Old 25th Jun 2009, 23:23
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RAD_ALT_ALIVE
 
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Maybe you didn't see it when it made the news last year. It wasn't kept particularly quiet.

I remember clearly reading, on this forum, the bleatings of those who cried double standards that the mainliners were being charged (a travesty, and contrary to the pursuit of aviation safety), while JQ's pilots were not.

Neither crew should! Instead there should be meaningful investigation conducted into mitigating the posibility of a repeat; I mean, really, why would two highly trained crews purposely take-off in the full knowledge that the runway lights weren't on?

Let us all hope that sanity and reason prevail with the B737 incident and the pilots concerned don't ever hear anything further about it.
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