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More common than you'd think as most crashes are on takeoff or landing, which tend to be in more built up areas.
We are discussing high altitude flyovers here.
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That’s not how ATC works - atc ALREADY went beyond what you normally see w their suggestions for a go around. ATC is focused on traffic (keeping it separated), pilots are in charge of flying their planes. In fact communicating with ATC is low on list of things to do when their are problems. Priority is aviate, navigate then communicate. And these controllers went above and beyond w their warnings already
The accident report indicates that ATC also didn't follow procedures, so no, ATC did not go above and beyond. The main criticism in the report seems to be that they did not report the lack of landing gear or the subsequent engine strike back to the aircraft. My criticism, having listened to some of the recording, is that ATC were not more insistent in their instructions. Every other ATC recording I've listened to, AT…
They don't bother you in terms of how you fly your own plane. That's captains responsibility in the US at least. The controller was getting into the go around game here (too high / too fast stuff). The CAPTAIN is supposed to monitor and establish the stabilized approach.
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More common than you'd think as most crashes are on takeoff or landing, which tend to be in more built up areas.
We are discussing high altitude flyovers here.