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I agree, well out of comfort zones. However to my reading multiple different things went wrong to get to this point.

• jacquesm 1y ago
  That could be. We just don't know right now, but your intuition may well be correct, even if there is a single root cause there could very well be multiple contributory causes.
  • bluGill 1y ago
    They failed to land at two airports before the third. I can't say if they made the right decisions but that already is two failures.
    • jacquesm 1y ago
      Go arounds are not failures.
      • bluGill 1y ago
        They are expected situations, but still a failure of the original plan.
        • jacquesm 1y ago
          They are not a failure of the original plan, they are a mandatory component of the original plan that if everything is nominal never gets executed. Every pilot on approach is ready for one or even more go-arounds and they happen quite frequently for a variety of reasons. They happen a few hundred times per day at ~100 k flights.