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Old March 4th 09, 09:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Radio altimeter fault triggered Turkish Airlines crash

If you can't answer the question why did you post a reply? ( Does this
sound at all familiar to you? )

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Musicrab writes:

What's the Boeing 737-800 flight manual say about what to do when left
and
right hand altimeters don't match?


It surely points out that working altimeters are required for an automated
approach. The airline flew with broken altimeters, and after tempting
fate
several times, it finally caught up with them.

Turkish Airlines has the worst safety record of all airlines in Europe and
the
U.S. combined, in terms of flights with fatalities over total flights.
And it
trails by quite a margin.