A seventeen-year-old Boeing of Air China, piloted by two experienced Koreans, takes off from China to Pusan, Korea. The airport is clouded in and the Air Traffic Controller tells them to do a circular approach so they can land into the wind.
The captain screws it up. The approach requires precise turns at precise moments but in the middle of one twenty-second period, the captain takes the controls, distracting him from the cockpit timer, and meanwhile the First Officer is looking for the runway, which is out of sight. Nobody is watching the timer.
At this point, the Captain should have aborted the approach and climbed but he failed to do it, partly because he'd never landed at Pusan before and partly because he was confused. Without issuing orders he simply took the controls, leaving the First Officer uncertain of his duties.
The airplane flew into a mountain and left 37 survivors, all in the rear of the fuselage. Once again, with the help of the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder, investigators are able to reconstruct the event leading to the disaster.
The captain screws it up. The approach requires precise turns at precise moments but in the middle of one twenty-second period, the captain takes the controls, distracting him from the cockpit timer, and meanwhile the First Officer is looking for the runway, which is out of sight. Nobody is watching the timer.
At this point, the Captain should have aborted the approach and climbed but he failed to do it, partly because he'd never landed at Pusan before and partly because he was confused. Without issuing orders he simply took the controls, leaving the First Officer uncertain of his duties.
The airplane flew into a mountain and left 37 survivors, all in the rear of the fuselage. Once again, with the help of the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder, investigators are able to reconstruct the event leading to the disaster.
