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Old 4th December 2011 | 05:03
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Junkflyer
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All those items you mentioned greatly contribute to situational awareness which helps to avoid unplanned contact with the earth or other hard objects. Windshear avoidance systems probably have helped greatly too, but you rarely if ever hear about the "almost happened" events.
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