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Old 18th Jan 2016, 12:28
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Doors to Automatic
 
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I saw an Air Crash Investigation last night about the Garuda overrun in 2007. This is the famous 220kt/flap 5 B737 approach onto a 2200m runway which ended up as 220kt/flap 5 approaches onto 2200m runways tend to!

During the latter stages of the approach the Captain ignored 10 warning calls and two orders from the FO to go-around. The last call to go-around was met with "Landing checklist complete" before he went on to kill 21 people.

The real travesty of this is that this individual is not locked-up.

There are a lot of accidentss that are caused by an unfortunate sequence of events (the holes in the cheese lining up) but not this one. Reading about it is one thing but watching the reconstruction really was sobering.
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