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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

Air Facts

If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. Weeks prior to the incident I had flown many approaches in IMC in which IMC was maintained at and beyond the FAF.” The turn to final started at roughly 50 feet when the plane was already over the runway, or nearly.