Thursday, August 4, 2005
Pilot’s perspective
An interesting read on a blogging pilot’s view of the Toronto Air France crash.
And indeed in Toronto these guys might have been okay if only they’d been on the 11,000’ runway 23 instead of the 9000’ 24L (the runways are oriented facing magnetic direction 230 and 240, i.e., almost the same, so it is unclear why the Airbus wasn’t assigned the longer runway). They might also have been okay if they hadn’t been in the famously underpowered A340-300 (the newer versions of this plane have almost twice as much power) and therefore requiring more runway remaining before going around.
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