There were two problems here, one perhaps worse than the other. First, many pilots have a tendency to fight for the soft touchdown and in the heat of the moment lose sight of the object: getting the airplane on the ground. As runway slips by and airspeed erodes, the deck angle required to touchdown in a controlled manner goes up. As that happens, the likelihood of the desired soft touchdown goes down. Secondly, and I think even more seriously dangerous, reacting to a failed result in anger turned a bad landing into one that damaged the aircraft.
— James Albright
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Accident report
- Date: 28 OCT 2009
- Time: 10:08
- Type: Airbus A321-231
- Operator: Asiana Airlines
- Registration: HL7763
- Fatalities: 0 of 9 crew, 0 of 138 passengers
- Aircraft Fate: Repaired
- Phase: Landing
- Airport: (Departure) Seoul-Gimpo (Kimpo) International Airport (SEL/RKSS), South Korea
- Airport: (Destination) Osaka-Kansai International Airport (KIX/RJBB), Japan
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