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The eyewitnesss what does your gut tell you? >> my gut tells me, perhaps, it's kind of crazy to say, perhaps it was the beautifully clear day that threw everyone off. you are expecting an instrument approach, pilots on a plane this sophisticated, everyone loves the plane. it's fully auto pilot land, it has every bell and whistle, and usually you fly on the auto pilot. it adjusts your throttle and speed and gives you warnings for everything. it can fly itself, on this particular day in san francisco, they did not have the instrument landing system and they did not have the visual approach light...

In to something called crew resource management in recent years. who will challenge and say something. there's been investigations where the ntsb has been critical for not challenging each other. you are supposed to challenge the pilot flying if something does not sound right, if they are not lined up for the landing. this being a visual approach. they needed a long glide slope in if they did not have the equipment to do it. and it's not always the first officer, as they trade off, is supposed to challenge and the ntsb has found that it does not happen, in some cultures such as some oriental -...

Now, i've been thinking about this throughout the past few hours, and there are a number of other considerations that may or may not have been made really clear. one of them has to do with the fact that at least in one other case with a triple 7 in london, they were on approach to land, and they ended up landing short also and it's my understanding that it was all because of the fuel situation. for one reason or another, the throttles were moving and the engines were not increasing in their thrust. therefore they landed short of the runway and short of the power they needed to continue to fly ...