Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Not necessarily so

Nitpicker

While your assertion (That's why all Airlines have stabilized approach criteria AND competent crews follow it.) surely sounds fine and upstanding, the facts are different. Both ASIAS (US Domestic) and STEADS (ICAO International) data and FSF studies show that between 3% and 5% of all flights engaging in air commerce experience an unstable approach. Approximately 5% of those flights actually conduct a Go Around.

While we all believe we are highly professional and can come on these boards and assert ALL COMPETENT pilots adhere to stable approach criteria, the facts are a small percentage of us, accounting for an incredibly huge number of operations every day, DON'T adhere to these policies. Hanging these guys out to dry for doing what 4% of us do every day, only because they had a bad outcome, does not lend itself to correcting the real problem.