Northwest Airlink 5719 / Slam Dunk Gone Wrong
Black Box Down
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Is There a Tailwind on the Approach?
The plane was cleared for a landing on runway 31, but the flight crew requested an approach to runway 13 instead because there was a tailwind. When there's a tailwind, you require more runway to land and when the runway is wet or slick, then you need more runway to landed. One way, one, three had what they call a non precision approach, which meant that it only had a localizer and no glide slope.
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