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Old 13th May 2014, 14:44
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If ATC did pass the correct weather information, and recommendations were made to use RW30, then ATC did all they could to prevent the accident and cannot be held at fault.

Any way you cut it, this accident was due to the plots ignoring the conditions of the approach and electing to fly an inappropriate approach in an inappropriate configuration. That is only the first major lapse. Refusing to go around from an irrefutably dangerous situation in the long flare was a separate issue, albeit triggered by the first, which was again treated in a dire manner. There are just no excuses for these guys, and I would never want to be in an aircraft they were flying - they may have learnt something from the accident, but they clearly don't have to required mindsets to be safe.
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