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**Bymnbypeten** · 03-25-2009, 09:09 PM

Actually the crosswinds on that runaway on that day were off the scale, well beyond max crosswind limit for that Airbus. The air control guys shouldn't have cleared them for landing on that runaway.

Yeah I was reading that, crazy. Also, the pilot was questioned a lot as to why he aborted the landing (if you can call it that) after the wing had touched the ground. Poor guy, what a life and death decision to take in a split of a second, fortunately he got it right (despite the critics)

I didn't read anything about them losing their jobs though; it's hard to tell without all the facts but I guess that would have been pretty unfair. One begs the question though, Why was the 24yo girl co-pilot landing the plane in such off the scale conditions?

It seems to me that even though pilots and co-pilots have the same training standards and "should" be able to performs each other tasks, this particular situation required experience on top of that... she didn't have it[no]

03-25-2009, 09:09 PM	#10
Bymnbypeten Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 348 Senior Member	Actually the crosswinds on that runaway on that day were off the scale, well beyond max crosswind limit for that Airbus. The air control guys shouldn't have cleared them for landing on that runaway. Yeah I was reading that, crazy. Also, the pilot was questioned a lot as to why he aborted the landing (if you can call it that) after the wing had touched the ground. Poor guy, what a life and death decision to take in a split of a second, fortunately he got it right (despite the critics) I didn't read anything about them losing their jobs though; it's hard to tell without all the facts but I guess that would have been pretty unfair. One begs the question though, Why was the 24yo girl co-pilot landing the plane in such off the scale conditions? It seems to me that even though pilots and co-pilots have the same training standards and "should" be able to performs each other tasks, this particular situation required experience on top of that... she didn't have it[no]
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