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Old 19th Mar 2011, 23:27
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justanotherflyer
 
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@Calypso

And there lies the rub of this accident. At DA you look out... if you see nothing but thick fog and yet you continue to look out and descent you will become disoriented as there is nothing to see out of the window. If you press on you will eventually hit something or see something but by that time you may be displaced off the runway or in a steep bank or nose high or possibly all three. While looking out you have no clue of the attitude or trajectory of the airplane.
While your scenario may or may not have been a factor, it has a high degree of plausibility.

And, whatever the specifics of this event, such a situation can be further compounded, not mitigated, by there being two crew on the flight deck.

One of those cases where MCC can backfire when the rules are broken.
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