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With 6 minutes left everyone could have died if anything went wrong with the final landing, even a gust of wind could have ended everybody's life.
by behringer 1y ago
With 6 minutes left everyone could have died if anything went wrong with the final landing, even a gust of wind could have ended everybody's life.
- bluGill 1y agoCould have, but pilots practice no fuel landings all the time (in simulators). If they can get to ground that is "level enough" nobody dies. It is not something you ever want to see in the real world (and in the real world people often do die when it happens), but it isn't automating people die.
- isaacdl 1y agoI don't think that's all that true for airliners. Pilots definitely practice for engine-out scenarios during all levels of training up to the airlines, but the ability of a plane the size of a 737 to safely land on anything but a runway is...limited. And if you're low, slow, and trying to go around, that's not a lot of time to glide to ground that is "level enough".
- bluGill 1y agoi didn't mean to imply no runway landings. Landing on grass is questionable. They would practice water landings though
- behringer 1y agoThose landings are practiced from a reasonable altitude.