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Commuter Airliner Crashes Less Than 30 Minutes After Takeoff

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Should You Have Feathered It?

The flight had a crosswind, but also a significant tailwind. The ground speed's high because they're being pushed from behind the airspeed slow because they're not flying into the wind. They get vectored for a position to land on runway 06 - should they have? "I think they're just asking an abundance of caution," he says.

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