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This one really illustrates the danger of getting behind the airplane in the approach while trying to save it. This was a very experienced crew with good old stick and rudder skills flying a non-precision instrument approach. They were 700ft high crossing the outer marker and deployed spoilers to put the plane into a 1500fpm descent. They left the spoilers extended after levelling off at MDA (perhaps in the high-workload moment they were mistaken as being armed for landing) slowed to stall warning activation and received an almost simultaneous ATC instruction to go-around due to traffic separation. Then, with the stickshaker still active, they retracted flaps to go-around. With the spoilers in the flight detent position and the reduced flaps the plane stalled and impacted a residential neighborhood.
I feel pretty certain these pilots would not have made these mistakes if they had time to think clearly and exercise the normal amount of caution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...nes_Flight_553
I feel pretty certain these pilots would not have made these mistakes if they had time to think clearly and exercise the normal amount of caution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...nes_Flight_553
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