Controlled Flight into Terrain
In recent years I have often been heard to say that the advent of EGPWS had heralded the beginning of the end for the tragic losses our industry suffered through CFIT accidents, and that our focus should shift to the next big threat - runway excursions. I am no longer so sure... It is of course too early to be certain but Tripoli, Smolensk and now perhaps Islamabad bear all of the trademark signs of serviceable aircraft hitting the ground in controlled flight. Don Bateman and his people at Honeywell have given us the tools to avoid these conditions so we have to start looking to ourselves, the pilots, and the training we receive, to determine why this killer has begun to rear its head again.
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