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Old 4th Feb 2010, 11:19
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chuks
 
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"If"?

If your aunt had wheels then she would be a tea cart. It is simple, really.

Hey Guys, how about waiting for the report before telling us at length exactly what we need to know about this particular accident? Without that report there are too many unanswered questions about what led up to the accident so that we need to see the radio transmissions, the CVR exchanges, the power settings, etcetera, with all of these on a time-line... after we have seen all of that stuff then we might be able to understand far better what went on there at Schiphol.

Without a report how, for instance, should we have understood what happened with that Colgan Dash 8? Initially that was another "simple" one: "Got too slow in heavy icing, stalled it, went in from a low altitude" seemed to be the initial consensus from what I remember. Well, it turns out that one was simple in terms of "what" but completely baffling in terms of "why," absolutely not in line with reasonable guesses about the cause of the crash.

Here again, we have much of the "what" but perhaps not enough to make a good guess at the "why" so that I think waiting for that report might be a good idea.

What we as individuals think about doing a GS intercept from above (when opinions here range from "It is all in a day's work," or "It happens more often than you might think," to "Are you mad?!") is of little import and much less interest than what the Dutch and Turkish authorities will say about that in this report.
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