Southwest Pilots Avoided Pairings With LaGuardia Hard-Landing Captain

The Southwest Airlines captain who took control of a Boeing 737 from the first officer seconds before touchdown and landed nose wheel-first on Runway 4 at New York’s LaGuardia airport in July last year had received more than double the average number of “avoidance bids” by first officers in the year...

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