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Old 14th Jul 2013, 20:07
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[According to witnesses, the plane’s tail broke off first as it was landing and the pilot chose the nearest runway instead of the scheduled runway. It looks like the pilot’s judgement and skills prevented a big disaster. It takes amazing skill to control a plane that has lost its tail and to make it rotate without flipping while reducing the speed. If it flipped once, they would’ve all died. Imagine how hard it is to stop a tumbling car moving at 150 kilometers per hour all within a short distance. As shown in the emergency landing in Murmansk, Korean airline pilots’ skills are among the top in the world because most of them are from the air force.[QUOTE]

ASSUMING the translation stands up, it seems there is very little point investigating as the airline and wider Korean society will not be interested in the finding. Such denial and propaganda are reminiscent of ridiculous regimes over the last few decades...

The fact that the airline are trying to detract from the issue by threatening law suits over an ill conceived gag, is frankly appalling. If they took a closer look at why their "pilots" drove a perfectly serviceable jet into a sea-wall, killing 3 kids in the process, they might learn something.

Disgraceful.
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