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Old 25th Jul 2012, 10:58
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Dg800
 
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I no speaka da Spanish, but contrary to the 'simulation' it looks as if they landed across the runway rather than along it!
Pilot claims he lost sight of the runway because of sunlight and a light mist that was forming. He basically claims that sunlight was diffused/reflected in a way that made it impossible to see out of the cockpit. The rest is the usual crap with passengers who are of course all qualified accident investigators blaming the pilot and asking for financial compensation and the airline refusing any payout as they claim "natural causes" and that nothing was wrong with the plane or the crew. This is the gist of it.

The simulation definitely is way off, from the passenger video it's quite clear that they touched down way off to the left, possibly so far off that they might not have had all wheels on the tarmac.
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