The one missed seat that cost them one mile from the runway
A captain with far too few jet hours pilots a Boeing 737 toward Cuenca in fog, one mile short of Mariscal Lamar - did they make it in time?The one missed seat that cost them one mile from the runwayIn this episode, we follow the flight, the crew, and the institutional decisions that shaped a routine fifty-minute trip to Cuenca. The episode traces training requirements, cultural rules at TAME, and the hour-by-hour choices that moved the jet toward the mountain - could one missed seat change everything?Date: July 11, 1983Aircraft: Boeing 737-200 Adv, registration HC-BIG, Ciudad de LojaAirline…
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