A Pilot Explains: Why Pilots Refuse To Land, And The Night I Got It Wrong
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The engines roar, the nose lifts, and the runway falls away beneath you. The safest thing a pilot can do is the one thing passengers hate: not land. Here is the rule behind it, the night I broke it, and what the recorders show from the Miami 767 crash.
This is A Pilot Explains: one story, twenty minutes, told from the flight deck. Every airline flies to the same rule: by 1,000 feet the aircraft is set up for landing or you go around, and nobody gets in trouble for it. In 2003, as a brand-new DC-9 first officer, Bryan flew into a dust storm at Bamako, ignored the captain's calls…
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