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The Pilot Who Knew the Hills - Why 69 Never Reached Imphal
The Pilot Who Knew the Hills - Why 69 Never Reached Imphal
Familiarity can be lethal: a captain who had flown into Imphal thirty-six times guided a fully serviceable Boeing 737 into the Thangjing range, striking the hillside at 6,700 feet and killing all 69 aboard. How could an experienced pilot on a known route, in daylight and with an airworthy aircraft, end up three hundred feet below the summit at full approach speed?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from takeoff to impact, the airport procedures designed for a radar-less approach, and the human and procedural choices…
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