But VA...it's much worse if they did not have this awareness! So whether or not you find fault with that statement, the alternate 'aint no better. Consider: "The crew was clueless as to the prevailing conditions, and the amount of runway that wizzed by as they decided to continue the landing phase." Yikes!
I mean, what's left? They either were aware and blithely "kept to the mission", or were ignorant of their speed, position, condition of runway...and options.
It'll have to be an uterally fantastic set of circumstances for this not to be primarily PE.
Not that this might not happen, though. Take a look at the preliminary NTSB report on the recent taxiway landing(!) at ATL by a DL 763...indeed, a truly amazing set of events really does mitigate (not eliminate) some of the PE. It's very intersting reading - check it out.
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