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ladjf

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7. Under the reported weather conditions, it should have been obvious to any experienced pilot looking
Sun Jul 7, 2013, 06:32 PM
Jul 2013

at the runway from a mile or two out that the glide angle, the airspeed, and the sink rate were
way out of kilter. The go around should have been initiated no less that 20 seconds earlier that the actual call. Even that would have been dicey.

My question is how could two experienced pilots sit there, looking out of the windshield, watching the airspeed drop to stall and watching the distance from the ground drop to zero before anyone seems to notice that the crash was imminent.

There might be some logical answers to my questions showing that the pilots weren't to blame.

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