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What can we learn?

Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.

Jim's Analysis

Oh dear, oh dear – chaos in the cockpit followed by confusion at CAA. But fear not, once it has all been untangled some very clear safety messages arise from the wreckage.

First, let’s get the muddled thinking out of the way. Both the pilot and the accident investigators need to come to

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