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Seconds of Fog: How Luxair 9642's Small Failures Killed 20
Seconds of Fog: How Luxair 9642's Small Failures Killed 20
A cold, dense fog hid a cascading chain of small decisions that left 20 of 22 people dead - the aircraft had 24,068 cycles, the runway visual range fell below the Fokker Fifty minimum, and the maintenance log showed an anti-skid defect signed off the day before. Who flipped the last switch that turned a survivable error into a fatal sequence?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the approach to Luxembourg Findel on 6 November 2002, how crew, air traffic control and maintenance entries converged, and why a missing approach…
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