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From: "Bill Kennedy" <bill_kennedy_3@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Another LNC2 Down
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We'll likely never know what happened for certain. That doesn't mean you 
can't take what you think may have happened in this accident, compare it to 
what you habitually do, and make changes, if appropriate.

Worst case scenario in my mind is a familiar scene of a pilot using a very 
shallow approach angle to make the flare easier (I suppose that's why so 
many make shallow approaches -- don't know for sure). Anyway, If that is 
your habit, there but for fortune went you. There is no good excuse for a 
dragged in approach.

I've also heard pilots talk of using a shallow final as a means of making a 
spot landing. Don't know how that works, but I know a picture book landing 
can be made from a normal  or steeper than normal approach angle.

I know this may not be a correct analysis of what happened in this accident, 
but it doesn't matter. If we can become better pilots from a discussion of 
what may have, or probably happened, we win.

Bill Kennedy
Volunteer FAA Safety Counselor and general know-it-all