jacquesm 4 days 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.

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  • bluGill 4 days 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.

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    • jacquesm 4 days ago

      Go arounds are not failures.

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      • bluGill 4 days ago

        They are expected situations, but still a failure of the original plan.

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        • jacquesm 4 days 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.

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