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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Database error involved in airplane crash
Aviation Week discusses in a recent editorial this report on the crash of a Turkish airlilner. Pilot error, namely continuing below minimums, was given as the primary cause. But a database error gave a wrong position for the runway threshold. The airplane landed to the left of the runway centerline.
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