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Old 30th Mar 2017, 13:46
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Underfire, an impressive list of warnings. Obviously the crew must have ignored all of them.
Agree Bloggs, don't think there would be a lot of warnings at all.
Certainly no "glideslope" warning, there is no glideslope (ILS) in St Maarten!
Also no "terrain" warning (terrain closure); within a defined area around the airport (not sure how big that exactly is, but I guess they were to close) you don't get those; otherwise you could never land
For a "sink rate" you would need around 1000FPM at low altitude, doesn't look like it on the video..
And a "windshear" warning would warrant an aggressive maneuver; the go around looks very gentle too me. Doen's look like this one either..
The "minimums" call is at 500' (or 700'), that awareness call had already passed..

They should have had the 100' Radio alt call though. Perhaps that was the trigger for them. At about 100' you should see the threshold disappearing under the nose; I guess they had a lot of water instead.. Suddenly that creepy feeling comes up...

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