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Old 16th Feb 2012, 17:23
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The report is suitably critical like the recent one from Pakistan. The investigators have done a good job and the failings of the unfortunate crew and their employer are well and truly exposed.

Equally I think this is a tragic example of what can happen. You are a pilot with your national airline, which for reason's largely beyond your control no longer offers you further employment. You work your way through jobs on several continents ending up with the low cost offshoot of another national carrier.

On paper you are well rested. In reality you have been rushing round the world trying to find a better job. On a night turn just back from leave you are so exhausted you fall asleep.

The co-pilot who resents not already being a captain watches from the sidelines as you monumentally screw up the approach. He has already mentally started drafting yet another report about incompetent foreign captains. He makes an attempt to get you to go-around at the last minute when he realizes you have really lost the plot.

In panic you make the screw up even worse and try and take off again after deploying the reversers. Your last words as you realize your mistake, this is going to be.... a big one, you know you are doomed. Personally I cannot help feeling a bit sorry for him and very sad for his passengers.
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