UPS Stresses Pilot-Monitoring After 2013 Crash

Credit: al.com/Landov FIle Photo
The pilots of UPS Flight 1354 set up for a non-precision “profile” instrument approach that is rarely used in practice as their Airbus A300-600 freighter approached Birmingham, Ala., in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 13, 2013. For reasons that are still not clear, the captain later switched to a more...

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