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Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.

Jim’s Analysis

This is interesting because there weren’t really any warning signs that they were brewing up for an accident. So we have a nice day with light winds, a reasonably experienced and current instructor, a lightly loaded, apparently serviceable aeroplane, and a good, big, international airport. What can go wrong?

To me it looks

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