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Pilot Refuses to Declare Emergency / Avianca Flight 52 Runs Out of Fuel

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The Faa Traffic Management Programs Failed to Manage the Traffic Volume at JFK

The first officer who made alla recorder radio transmissions in english never used the word emergency, even when he radioed that two engines had flamed out. He did not use the appropriate phrase logy published in us aernautical publications, to communicate to air traffic control the flight's minimum fuel status. The captain did not fly the i l s approach in a stabilized manner, which led to a serious deviation below the glide slope. And his initiation of a go around a wind sheer on the approach path contributed to the captain's poor performance on the i lS approach. So gangeslik, like i sayhe was probably physically tired, and then didn't have any of the automation to

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