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Old 13th May 2012, 01:30
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bubbers44
 
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The 757 Cali crash changed our memory items to stow the speed brakes but it probably wouldn't had made any difference anyway. I was flying to Panama City that night and there was no moon so when they screwed up and headed east through the hills to Bogata because both outer markers had the same designater they could not see the terrain. My FO questioned our visual that night overflying the airport at 5,000 ft approaching over the Pacific and said all we have to clear now are sailboat masts.

I was offered the same approach straight in as them and out of courtesy declined it because of the people we lost in that crash. It isn't a hard approach but doing the ILS from the south side seemed like the thing to do after that awful crash.
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