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Old 21st Nov 2010, 15:06
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Jabiman
 
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Why blame it all on the F/O if he called for a go-around three times? He could have/should have seized control of the plane, but didn't. He paid for it with his life.
This from the original news story:

Voice recordings picked up co-pilot H.S. Ahluwalia saying: "We don't have runway left," seconds before the disaster.
The report revealed that the plane touched down 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) along the airport's hilltop runway, which is about 8,000 feet long, the Hindustan Times said.
It added Glusica was suffering "sleep inertia" and that experts had concluded that the plane would still have landed safely if the pilots had applied the emergency brakes instead of trying to take off again.
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