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Old 25th Jan 2014, 10:30
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Utrinque
 
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Clearly very ancient! I think you must be the only one on here that thinks the airport was suitable for that aircraft! There is no valid landing performance data for landing a 73 there! Landing without any problems is not using max manual breaking! No one here is suggesting that the runway was NOT too short - are you seriously telling me that you believe their MK 1 eye ball told them at night, "yeah its a bit on the short side but I can tell by looking at it that if we stand on the brakes we will be fine"!! Any pilot realizing they were landing at the wrong field at any point up to unstowing the reversers would be going around! Besides, the pilots have admitted not realising they had the wrong field until after touchdown ... so yes they were lucky!

I will agree with you on one point - that there is no place for luck at the pointy end but in this case there apparently was, and that luck was the difference between life and death.

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