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Air Crash Investigation Series S21E06 Meltdown Over Kathmandu
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00:00U.S. Bangla Airlines Flight 211 struggles on approach to Kathmandu Airport.
00:08It's very dangerous, and the visibility is low in that area.
00:12The plane was flying close to the ground.
00:20Sir! Sir!
00:22I thought that no one was alive there.
00:3351 people are killed.
00:37Investigators try to determine if there was something wrong with the plane.
00:41Let's take a look at these inputs. They're so extreme.
00:45Or with the pilots.
00:47I want a bloody written explanation when I come back to Dhaka.
00:528-6-8-8-8-8-8.
00:59Where, planet, plane is.
01:052-6-8-8-8-8.
01:073-6-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-6.
01:13f-3-0-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-9-8-8-8-8.
01:18US Bangla Flight 211 cruises above the Himalayas.
01:21cruises above the himalayas
01:25captain abid sultan is at the controls
01:29he has more than five thousand flying hours
01:36request for descent
01:38yes it's time
01:41first officer pretula rashid is a newcomer to u.s. bangla airlines
01:47at age twenty-five she has less than four hundred hours of flying time
01:53katmandu bs-211 request descent
01:58bs-211 katmandu approach
02:01descent to flight level one six zero
02:05katmandu bs-211
02:07flight level one six zero
02:10good
02:16their destination is katmandu airport in the pool
02:21there are sixty seven passengers and two cabin attendants on board
02:29basanta bahora a nepalese travel agent is returning from a business trip in
02:34bangladesh
02:37in talking about we went to a travel agency award ceremony for three or four
02:41days
02:42ten top agencies were sponsored by u.s. bangla and we went to receive an award
02:48we attended the event and then returned home
02:54it's a ninety minute flight from daca to katmandu
02:57katmandu airport is in the foothills of the himalayas it's on high ground and
03:06although it's in a valley it's on very uneven ground
03:09pilots consider it
03:11to be one of the most challenging airports in the world
03:14the crew is flying a bombardier dash eight q400
03:20it's a small plane and it has low operational costs and is very popular with small airlines who are looking to keep their costs down
03:30and the
03:35the
03:37the
03:43this
03:45the s211 is six minutes ahead of schedule
03:49The controller gives the crew instructions to go into a holding pattern
03:53when they get to their next navigation point.
03:56Do you remember how to enter or hold?
03:59Nav page.
04:03Maneuver.
04:05Very good.
04:07The captain was extremely experienced and an instructor.
04:12He had flown in and out of Kathmandu repeatedly.
04:14He knew the route, he knew the plane better than anyone at that airline.
04:19I'm looking forward to getting home.
04:24The flight was absolutely normal.
04:26Some were reading newspapers, others were talking to each other.
04:37BS-211 is now 20 miles from Kathmandu.
04:43First officer Rashid makes contact with air traffic control at the airport.
04:48Kathmandu Tower, BS-211, finals, runway 02.
04:55BS-211, tower, wind 8 knots, runway 02, continue approach.
05:03BS-211 is on final approach to runway 02.
05:07Tribouvan International Airport has one 10,000-foot airstrip.
05:16Planes approaching the airport from the south land on runway 02 and from the north on runway 20.
05:23The two runway references are based on in which direction you are using the runway.
05:32Obviously, you do not want planes coming and going in both directions.
05:36The aircraft is now three miles from runway 02.
05:41BS-211, wind 220 degrees, runway 02, clear to land.
05:46But BS-211 isn't ready to land.
05:58Have you seen the runway?
05:59No, not yet.
06:08No problem.
06:09It'll be in front.
06:15BS-211, you were given landing clearance to runway 02.
06:20Affirmative, ma'am.
06:21BS-211 has overflown the entire runway and is now headed north towards the mountains.
06:39I think we're going to runway 02.
06:42Concerned by what he's seeing, the supervising controller steps in to assist flight 211.
06:47Okay, Bangalistar, 211, runway 20, clear to land.
06:56Kathmandu Air Traffic Control redirects BS-211 to turn left and land on runway 20.
07:05Can you see the runway?
07:07Everything is all set up, but we're not seeing the runway.
07:15No runway yet.
07:17That means the runway is to our right.
07:29At the time, the plane was flying close to the ground.
07:33We realized something was wrong.
07:34To complicate matters, there's another plane two miles out on final approach to the runway.
07:44Buddha 282, descend to target altitude.
07:49Runway 02, clear to land.
07:52Runway 02, clear to land.
07:54Descent to altitude.
07:55Buddha 282.
08:02What is he doing?
08:04BS-211, traffic at final 02 at two miles.
08:07The controller warns BS-211 about the inbound plane.
08:17There's one runway.
08:18It's a single piece of real estate.
08:21And obviously, what you can't have is both directions of the runway functioning at once.
08:26It's a head-on collision.
08:29BS-211, do not proceed towards runway 20.
08:31Topic is on short final, runway 02.
08:35Clear to hold your present position.
08:37Copy.
08:38Let us know, sir, what's the aircraft land?
08:45The inbound plane lands on runway 02.
08:51BS-211, runway is clear to land, either runway 02 or 20.
08:54Sir, we would like to land runway 20.
09:00Okay, runway 20, clear to land.
09:03Wind 270 degrees, six knots.
09:06Copy.
09:07Clear to land.
09:13But the plane isn't lining up with the runway.
09:21Bangla star 211, turn right.
09:23You have the runway to land.
09:25Confirm you have the runway in sight.
09:29Negative.
09:30Where is the runway?
09:34Sir, runway.
09:36Runway three o'clock.
09:38Affirmative.
09:39We have runway in sight.
09:40Request clear to land, sir.
09:44BS-211, clear to land.
09:53He's landing up for the taxiway.
09:58BS-211, that is not the runway.
10:00Over, that's not the runway.
10:02BS-211, that is not the runway.
10:04I say again.
10:07The pilots make a last-minute adjustment to try to line up their plane with the runway.
10:11He's past the threshold, and at that point, the controllers are certainly clear that there
10:17is something wrong.
10:20We have the runway in sight.
10:22Oh, my God, sir.
10:24But the airplane is headed directly for the control tower instead.
10:27U.S. Bangla Airlines flight 211 flies wildly off course towards the control tower in Kathmandu.
10:37They think that this plane is flying into them.
10:40The air traffic controllers duck.
10:43The captain swerve straight past them and directly over the passenger terminal before turning again.
10:49He's flying this Dash-8 twin propeller plane like it's a fighter jet.
10:56The pilots of U.S. Bangla 211 struggle desperately to get their planes safely on the ground.
11:04We felt scared.
11:07We were praying to God.
11:12Sir! Sir!
11:15Stay free. Stay free.
11:17He manages to almost line up with the runway, and he touches one wheel on the runway about a third or half of the way down.
11:27I saw the aircraft skid off the runway.
11:32People were thrown around violently inside the plane.
11:35I think they were like, oh, my God.
11:47When I saw the explosion, I thought that no one was alive there.
12:09Our fire trucks were immediately on the grass side.
12:23People who were conscious started crying and screaming.
12:29We headed towards a hole where the light was coming from.
12:32I fell on the ground after walking a few steps away from the plane.
12:42Not everyone is so fortunate.
12:4749 people are dead, including both pilots.
12:51At a Kathmandu hospital, family and friends wait for news of their loved ones.
13:04Of the 22 passengers who survived, two die in hospital.
13:09A multinational commission is formed to investigate the tragedy.
13:22It consists of delegates from Nepal, Bangladesh and Canada, representing the Canadian manufacturer of the Dash 8, Bombardier.
13:30Let's see what the wreckage can tell us.
13:42The objective of the investigation was to find out the actual cause of accident and to try to prevent similar accident in the future.
13:53Looks like the plane veered off the runway.
13:56Kept going for a while.
13:58Hit the sperm.
14:00Then flipped upside down.
14:05What caused the plane to veer off the runway?
14:09Was there a mechanical issue with the aircraft?
14:15Hard to tell what was and wasn't working.
14:20The aircraft was broken into two pieces.
14:24The fuse was broken.
14:25And most of the parts were engulfed in fire, post-crash fire.
14:28And the cockpit was completely smashed.
14:35The team gets a lucky break.
14:39Yeah, good work.
14:40The aircraft's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have survived the fire.
14:48They are sent to Ottawa for analysis by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board.
14:53With no solid leads, investigators tried to get some clues from the survivors.
15:04Was there anything unusual about the flight?
15:08When I looked outside the window, I could see people and houses close by.
15:24This made me feel that the flight was really close to the ground.
15:31Did the pilot provide any updates on what was happening?
15:38None.
15:40As we got closer to landing, things got worse.
15:42The survivors' account leaves investigators wondering why BS-211 was flying so erratically.
16:11Were the pilots dealing with engine failure or some other mechanical issue?
16:19Queue up the recording to just before the plane landed.
16:27Investigators review video footage of the final seconds of flight 211.
16:32Well, there were several CCTV security cameras which captured different angles of the aircraft during approach.
16:42The plane came approximately 45 feet close to the control tower and disappeared hard left to avoid the tower.
17:03So it was really surprising. I mean, how could the aircraft make an approach that way?
17:10Another security camera captures the final moments of BS-211.
17:14They're coming in fast. The plane is banking to the right.
17:19They touched down more than halfway down the runway.
17:21The right landing gear first, then the left.
17:23It touched down pretty hard because the tire marks could be very visible and it was at an angle of approximately 30 to 35 degrees with the fore and aft axis of the runway.
17:37The CCTV footage confirms the survivors' account that the plane was flying erratically before it crashed.
17:52Play it from the top again.
17:56The video is examined more carefully for evidence of a mechanical failure.
18:06The props were working.
18:09The team quickly rules out engine failure.
18:12It's hard to tell from this if there was a flight control issue.
18:17Investigators are no closer to solving the mystery of BS-211.
18:22I wonder what the controllers can tell us.
18:31Investigators turned to air traffic controllers at Kathmandu Airport to determine if US Bangla Flight 211 was struggling with a flight control issue.
18:41Did the crew report any mechanical problems?
18:43Quite the opposite.
18:45The captain seemed very calm as they offered assistance.
18:49We have the runway in sight.
18:50The crew never sounded an alarm.
18:53Never said to the ATC that they were having any mechanical problem with their aircraft.
18:58Walk me through what happened.
19:00We cleared the plane to land on runway 02.
19:03But notice the plane had passed the runway threshold and was flying parallel to the runway.
19:13BS-211, you were given lighting clearance to runway 02.
19:17Affirmative, ma'am.
19:20BS-211, you were going towards runway 20.
19:23They saw that plane was flying towards runway 20.
19:27So that was when the air traffic controller realized that there was some problem going on.
19:31That's when the confusion started.
19:32But instead of turning left and landing, they flew towards the mountains and turned right.
19:45What is he doing?
19:48What is he doing?
19:52The next thing we knew, they flew right past the tower.
20:02We thought maybe they were lost.
20:03Talking to the controls, we could find out that the pilot was totally confused as to where he was.
20:12He was not sure about his position.
20:15Can you see the runway?
20:16Everything is all set up, but we are not seeing the runway.
20:18Even though the crew didn't report a control problem, investigators still can't rule it out.
20:33Were both pilots disorientated, lost as they made the final approach?
20:38Let's have a look.
20:41The team examines the charts the pilots used for their approach into Kathmandu.
20:49The Jefferson chart looks fine.
20:51What about the arrival route chart?
20:55No issues with this one either.
21:01Investigators determined that the pilots had the most recent navigation charts for their approach.
21:08If the charts didn't lead them astray, then what did?
21:13At this point, we are a few weeks into the investigation,
21:18and we are still not sure what really went wrong in that flight,
21:23and we are very anxious to get our hands on CVR and FDR.
21:29Pull up the data.
21:31BS-211's flight data recorder is ready for analysis.
21:36Will it reveal if the pilots were in control of their aircraft?
21:41These are the inputs the captain made to the control column.
21:45And these are the actual movements of the flight controls.
21:49Investigators compare the captain's inputs to the actual movements of the plane's flight controls.
21:55They make an important discovery.
21:56They're identical.
21:57The plane was doing everything the captain commanded to do.
21:58The flight data recorder did not indicate any malfunction in the aircraft.
21:59So we definitely could rule out any flight control problem.
22:00Let's see later on the flight.
22:01Take a look at these inputs.
22:02They're so extreme.
22:03Bang angle, bang angle.
22:04Bang angle.
22:05Bang angle.
22:06Bang angle.
22:07Bang angle.
22:08The plane was doing everything the captain commanded to do.
22:10The flight data recorder did not indicate any malfunction in the aircraft.
22:12So we definitely could rule out any flight control problem.
22:16Let's see later on the flight.
22:17Take a look at these inputs.
22:18They're so extreme.
22:19Bang angle.
22:20Bang angle.
22:21Think rate.
22:22The data shows captain Sultan was making some severe inputs to his control column near the
22:41end of the flight.
22:42This coincides with the survivor's account of what happened.
22:55His maneuvering at low level was completely unorthodox.
22:59Take rate.
23:00Bang angle.
23:01Bang angle.
23:02If there wasn't a flight control problem, why was the captain flying the plane so erratically?
23:09This is the flight path the plane was supposed to take.
23:16To better understand exactly what the plane was doing as it approached the airport, investigators
23:22compile the heading data and chart the exact course of the plane.
23:26And this is the flight path they actually took.
23:29What the data shows is astonishing.
23:34Looks like they drifted way off course.
23:37And flew loops very close to the mountains.
23:42It was very shocking for all of us because that kind of flight pattern we'll not see in
23:46a commercial flight.
23:47And in spite of our air traffic controller trying to guide them, they actually did not follow
23:52the pattern.
23:53Looks like the trouble started right here.
23:5617 miles out when they arrived at Guras waypoint.
24:07Pilots navigate by following a series of waypoints or GPS locations along their flight path.
24:14Guras is the last waypoint into Kathmandu airport.
24:20Guras was the point from where they actually started DVT.
24:26Investigators dig deeper into the FDR data to understand why BS-211 drifted off course at Guras.
24:35They programmed the flight management system for a holding pattern of a Guras.
24:40Here.
24:41The FDR data reveals that the crew pre-programmed a holding pattern about 34 miles before reaching Guras.
24:48And when they reach Guras, it looks like they start their holding pattern.
24:51Right here.
24:56But the heading data shows the crew didn't complete their holding pattern.
25:01The question is, why?
25:06We need to know what was going on in that cockpit.
25:18The team turns to the cockpit voice recorder and focuses on what happened as the plane approached
25:23Guras.
25:25Let's pick it up where they're descending.
25:27Kathmandu, BS-211.
25:30Descent to 13,500 feet and hold over Guras.
25:35Do you remember how to enter or hold?
25:45We need to be on the nav page.
25:47Then press maneuver.
25:49Nav page.
25:52Maneuver.
25:55Good.
25:57And then enter the inbound course for Guras.
26:00Very good.
26:03They get their instructions to hold once they arrive at Guras.
26:07They program it into the flight management system.
26:09Nothing unusual at this point.
26:13Both the pilots are very calm.
26:16The captain especially was giving some instructional tips to the co-pilot.
26:22It seemed to us there was nothing wrong anywhere at all.
26:26Keep going.
26:27BS-211, Kathmandu approach.
26:31Descent to 11,500 feet.
26:34Clear for VOR.
26:36Approach on runway 02.
26:39BS-211.
26:41Descent to 11,500 feet.
26:44Clear for VOR.
26:45Runway 02.
26:47As they're still about three miles out from the Guras waypoint.
26:52Their port controller contacts them to say they no longer have to hold at Guras.
26:57Right here.
26:58This is where they should have cancelled the hold.
27:02For some reason the flight crew didn't cancel the hold.
27:06And this is a critical phase of flight.
27:09Keep going.
27:11What investigators hear next is even more troubling.
27:15Where's my cigarette?
27:17Let me find the thing.
27:19Do you know where I've dropped it?
27:21To catch fire.
27:22The captain is smoking in the cockpit.
27:24In the middle of one of the most challenging approaches on earth.
27:27And this guy is fumbling around for a cigarette.
27:36U.S. Bangla flight 211 is on approach to Kathmandu airport.
27:42Sir, we're heading into cloud.
27:45When the captain breaks standard operating procedures.
27:49A cockpit is not a place for a cigarette at the best of times.
27:53And so now they're both distracted.
27:55He's saying, but it might burn.
27:57Well, you know, yes.
27:58That's one good reason not to drop your cigarette in a cockpit.
28:04He's so distracted he forgets to cancel the hold.
28:08Smoking is strictly private in the cockpit.
28:11So it was a gross violation from the captain.
28:16Continue.
28:17Could this have anything to do with why the flight drifted off course at waypoint Guras?
28:26Kathmandu, Bangla 211, overhead Guras at 11,500.
28:32Roger.
28:40BS-211, are you holding over Guras?
28:44The controller notices that BS-211 is holding when it should be continuing its approach.
28:53Sir, we're holding.
28:59Tell them we're continuing our approach.
29:02We are continuing approach.
29:05Heading mode on. Stop.
29:08They finally cancel the hold when the approach controller catches the error.
29:11He then puts the plane into heading mode.
29:14Heading mode steers the aircraft towards a specific heading selected by the pilot.
29:20It's an instruction to the autopilot to follow whatever heading that the captain sets.
29:27It is up to him to ensure that they are flying towards the runway.
29:33In heading mode, the plane is more susceptible to the weather conditions.
29:39He's introduced a serious manual element.
29:44In heading mode, you have to continuously give the heading correction depending on the strength of the wind.
29:53So weather has got a lot to do if only the aircraft is flown by its heading mode.
29:59Maybe the wind blew him off course.
30:02Now we had to consider the role of the weather and the demise of US Bangla 211.
30:12It was a bit hazy that day.
30:16Investigators examine meteorological records for the day BS-211 crash-landed at Kathmandu Airport.
30:22Runway visibility was still 7km.
30:27It says here the winds were strong from the west, up to 27 knots.
30:32Unfortunately, a very strong wind was coming from the left hand side.
30:38They're in heading mode. The winds are from the west. The plane isn't correcting for the winds.
30:43So they drift off course.
30:48Exactly.
30:50The pilots are looking ahead, but the runway is now off to their left.
30:55That made the aircraft to deviate to the right.
30:59So the aircraft could not maintain its lateral direction with regard to the wind effect.
31:08Have you seen the runway?
31:09No runway yet.
31:12They never saw the runway and just kept on flying.
31:16Do the before landing checklist.
31:19The crew configures the plane for landing.
31:22Landing gear.
31:24Down 3 green.
31:25The captain called down 3 green, confirming the landing gear was down.
31:38And moments later a warning sounds indicating the landing gear is up.
31:42The captain says nothing about it.
31:43The landing gear was not down. The landing gear unsafe warning was sounding in the cockpit.
31:54I don't know how they could have ignored the warning.
31:59I don't know how they could have ignored the warning.
32:05He had lost his situational awareness by then.
32:08He actually did not know where his plane was.
32:10Then, he circles around the other end of the runway, narrowly misses the control tower.
32:24Tries to make a near impossible landing.
32:27We are quite surprised. Our experienced captain like him would maneuver their cover in such a dangerous way.
32:35It was really surprising for us.
32:39Sir! Sir!
32:42Sir!
32:48What could have led the captain to fly this reckless approach?
32:53It seems that he tried to land the plane no matter what.
32:59We needed to look into the captain's background.
33:04The captain was a fighter pilot for 10 years with the Bangladesh Air Force.
33:10Investigators delve into Captain Abid Sultan's background and discover that he was a highly experienced pilot.
33:17He flew into Kathmandu regularly.
33:21He joined US Bangla in 2015 and he was not just a pilot and a captain there, he was also their Czech pilot.
33:29That means it was his job to do Czech rides for all the other pilots to ensure that they understood the Daesh 8s.
33:37With no clear answers as to why Captain Sultan bungled his approach, investigators returned to earlier in the CVR recording for answers.
33:48Late from earlier in the flight.
33:52BS 287, please confirm onboard fuel.
33:56Operations 211.
33:59BS 211, go ahead sir.
34:01Why the hell do you need onboard fuel?
34:04Why do you ask me the onboard fuel?
34:06Tell me the reason you want to do with onboard fuel.
34:09I want a bloody written explanation when I come back to Dhaka!
34:16The captain's vocal pitch and language indicate he was extremely agitated and stressed.
34:23He blows up and wants to know why they're talking to him and why they're asking him this question.
34:30Well they weren't.
34:32BS 211, the request is for BS 287. Safe flight sir.
34:37Don't talk to me about safe flight! Don't talk to me unless I call you!
34:41He overheard a message and misheard who they were talking to, but he lost his temper and blew up.
34:50He was definitely annoyed, angry and he was not balanced at that particular moment.
34:58Why is the captain so agitated?
35:00Blamia was the worst trained pilot at US Mangala, but now she's with another airline.
35:07Investigators now hear signs of an emotionally disturbed captain.
35:12She's bad-mouthing US Mangala instructors, including me.
35:20He talks about a female colleague who worked with him in the same airline.
35:24She accused him of not being a good instructor and not being very competent enough to teach.
35:31It's clear the captain's distraught about the accusations.
35:36But this guy's a professional.
35:39Could a complaint from a former colleague have affected Sultan to the point that he crashed the plane?
35:45He's trying to clear his name with the first officer, who is uncomfortable with the whole conversation.
36:06He is having some kind of mental breakdown and she's not in a position to say,
36:13you aren't safe to fly, we should turn around.
36:19That's not all investigators discover.
36:22According to this, the captain submitted his resignation the day before his fatal flight.
36:26The day before?
36:27He said he tendered his resignation and he was going to leave the company in three months' time,
36:35all because of this false accusation from this female colleague.
36:41It's now clear to the team that Captain Sultan was emotionally unstable.
36:46We needed to look into the medical background of the pilot.
36:51Digging deeper into the captain's military records, investigators come across some disturbing information.
37:00In 1993, the Bangladesh Air Force discharges him due to depression.
37:08This depression had been the cause of him being forcibly retired from the military.
37:14He didn't leave, he was declared unfit to fly.
37:18A decade later, he starts flying commercially.
37:24He was evaluated in 2003.
37:27He was found to be not suffering from any of the effects of the clinical depression,
37:32and he was found fit to fly.
37:36Was the airline aware of the captain's medical history?
37:41There's no mention of depression in his entire time with the airlines.
37:44How is it the airline didn't know?
37:48Get this, the mental health reports were self-reported.
38:00Self-reported?
38:01U.S. Bangla had no idea that the captain had this history, or that he'd ever been banned from flying.
38:16They were relying on him to report his own mental health.
38:20Did the captain's troubled state of mind ultimately lead to the fatal crash landing of U.S. Bangla Flight 211?
38:35What's my next source of income?
38:37Investigators continue listening to Flight 211's cockpit voice recorder.
38:42Do I need to cry like this?
38:46No, no sir.
38:51You look at me.
38:53It's my fault that I haven't been able to train you.
38:57The team hears evidence of a man who was desperate to salvage his reputation.
39:09He was stressed that he was told that he was not a good instructor.
39:13He was trying to prove that he was a good instructor, he was a good captain, he was a good teacher.
39:19Do you know that I didn't sleep the entire night?
39:25I cried a lot.
39:31To top it all off, the captain was sleep deprived.
39:35We have a clear sign that this is a pilot who should not be flying a plane.
39:40He's clearly fatigued. He has not had the requisite number of hours of sleep and rest that he should have had before the flight.
39:49It is his duty to tell U.S. Bangla to contact operations and say, I am not going to be able to fly this plane.
40:00Investigators finally have a clear picture of what happened on board BS-211.
40:05Lamiel was the worst trained pilot at U.S. Bangla.
40:12But now she's with another airline.
40:17A seasoned pilot with a history of depression was emotionally distraught after having his competence questioned.
40:24She's bad mouthing U.S. Bangla instructors, including me.
40:28He wanted to leave the company, all because a female colleague has questioned his reputation as an instructor.
40:39He was very hurt to hear that.
40:42Suffering from fatigue.
40:45You know that I didn't sleep the entire night.
40:48I cried a lot.
40:49He begins his approach into one of the most challenging airports in the world.
41:01The captain manages to hold the flight together until...
41:07What is my secret?
41:09He breaks standard operating procedure at a critical moment.
41:13To catch fire.
41:16The distraction causes the captain to mismanage the approach.
41:20Sir, we're heading into cloud.
41:23Consumed by his need to prove to the first officer that he's a good pilot.
41:28Can you see the runway?
41:30Everything is all set up, but we're not seeing the runway.
41:33The captain ignores the warning signs that he's not ready for a safe landing.
41:38Landing gear.
41:40Down three green.
41:45Instead of calling for a go around, the disoriented captain flies the plane in circles.
41:56And tries to make an impossible landing.
41:59Because 2-1-1, that is not the runway.
42:07Banking. Banking.
42:09We have the runway inside.
42:11Sink brake. Sink brake.
42:13He was maneuvering at low level, flying around the airfield like some sort of top gun pilot.
42:20It was absolutely reckless.
42:23There is no longer piloting going on.
42:35He attempted to land the plane as an act of sheer desperation.
42:40Sir!
42:42Sir!
42:43Sir!
42:45Sir!
42:53All he wanted to do was land at any cost.
42:56Sir!
42:58Sir!
43:00Sir!
43:02Sir!
43:04Sir!
43:06Sir!
43:08Sir!
43:09Sir!
43:10We concluded that it was exclusively human error that contributed to the cause of this particular accident.
43:23He totally mismanaged the flight.
43:28Investigators recommend that pilots who have been grounded for medical reasons
43:33be given thorough physical and psychological examinations before their license can be renewed.
43:42When I remember that day, I always think that I'm lucky to have survived.
43:47Many people died, so I thank God.
43:50I'm still scared when I think of that day, but yes, I feel lucky.
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