Hi Capt Lim, Regarding the Airbus A320 crash in BRAZIL this
week, why did the pilot speed up to do a go around when he was
already on the runway? He could have done all he could to slow
the jet down. I don't know why the pilot decided to do what he
did (going around when he was already on the runway) until the
exact details are revealed by the black box. The communications
and what transpired would be recorded by the CVR (cockpit voice
recorder) and the technical details will be shown on the FDR
(flight data recorder). Both the recorders are part of the black
box. I know many people will start to speculate on the causes of
the crash (the runway was short and wet, one of the reversers
was unserviceable, etc). I overheard an aviation expert in CNN
commented that the blame for the crash falls squarely on the
shoulder of the runway condition. On the question of air safety,
could one blame the environment for the misfortune? Indeed the
runway is short - only 6362 feet long (1939 meters). But that is
within the sto