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Jul 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Runway 34 is a disaster, start to end. It takes Bollywood expertise to wipe out all trace of fact and credibility in a script based on a real incident (9W555, 2015, Runway 14/32, not 34)

Where do I start? "Landing blind"? Yeah. PIC lands aircraft with his EYES CLOSED. 1/n Image
No, pilots don't land eyes closed. That's not what landing blind is. Even w. ILS and Autoland they need to see instruments. One PIC who bet his FO that he could land blind (on instruments only, windows covered) crashed the plane, killed 70, went to jail.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_…
#Runway34 learnings (spoilers): Women FOs haven't a clue abt all those buttons: need male Capt to show them what to press. She gasps like a porpoise while the captain, EYES SHUT, cig in mouth, lands with zero fuel on NPA with fierce tailwinds on a tabletop runway at night. 3/n
FUEL BRAKES UP! the Capt barks as he lands. Erm, what are those? Sadly, my pilot friends couldn't tell me. One said it was something secret. #Runway34

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