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Old 14th Nov 2014, 12:26
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sapperkenno
 
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It landed without incident, so why go-around? Surely the idea of a go-around is when it is deemed that landing is not possible. With a bit of local knowledge, plenty of experience, and no doubt a pretty slick hands-on type of pilot at the helm, it landed alright and was pretty much a none event.
Contrast that to the button pushing Easyjet Airbus jockey video a few weeks ago, that looked perfectly landable after a bit of a wobble, but who went around.

I would hope that many would rather be flown by pilots with this sort of skill, rather than the tentative, lacking in flying skill, autopilot monkeys who would have gone around at the first wobble, instead of doing what they are paid to do, and land their aircraft.

If we were looking at a smoking hole in the aftermath, I'd have agreed with the "should have gone around" crowd, but for this, and the outcome, complete none event.
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