July 16th Accident In Vancouver

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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Read this and see if it sounds like something is missing such as
aircraft
performance and other things.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?...04CA136&rpt=fa



1. PULL the throttle to initiate a go-round?

2. I tried, without any success, to get the NTSB to run a quick and
dirty "bootstrap" performance analysis on aircraft types involved in
accidents, so they could determine whether the unfortunate operator was
working beyond the airplane's performance envelope. The idea was to
accumulate, over time, a database which would allow future analyses to
be done in a more informative and telling manner. As it is, the NTSB's
work is mostly about on the level of our current politics -- bumper
sticker slogans only! "Failure to avoid terrain", .... etc.

John Lowry
Flight Physics