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If we could wave a magic wand
and take away one blemish on
aviation safety, the first and
most effective thing would be
to eliminate landing accidents.
These account for nearly half of all pilot-related
accidents, and an untold additional number of incidents.
Throw a dart on the calendar and at least two
pilots had a landing mishap that day. Why are we so
prone to landing problems?
The obvious answer is that landing an airplane
is a difficult skill that takes an immense amount of
training, reasonably good weather conditions, and a
well-maintained airplane. There seems to be a pervasive
belief that because landing is so difficult, we
have to accept that some will go poorly, and we are
going to bend airplanes. Remember that hazardous
attitude called resignation? We should all be seething
mad about this. It puts a blemish on our hobby or
livelihood, costs us all millions in additional insurance
premiums, and puts far too many airplanes out
to pasture. And, yes, people are occasionally injured
or killed in landing accidents.
The truth is that good landings are difficult,
but acceptable landings aren't. The type of landing
where it takes a second to recognize if the wheels
have touched the ground takes time to hone and
evades some pilots entirely. But the adage of a
good landing is one you walk away from and
use the airplane again? Most of us grasp that early
in training.
Looking for clues in the NTSB accident and
FAA incident databases, and NASA Aviation Safety
Reporting System doesn't, at a first reading, bring
up any obvious reasons for our lack of landing
discipline. Each report seems unique. There's the
pilot of the Cessna 172 who bounced twice, tried to
go around, and then went off the side of the runway
and hit a taxi light. Or the other pilot of another 172
who veered off after touchdown because he misapplied
the brakes. A pilot of a Cessna 140 blamed
a gust for his runway excursion. Then there's the
Cessna Citation crew that apparently landed on the
edge of the runway at night, which caused them to
veer off the side of the runway. That one truly is a
strange outlier.
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