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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Holland Accident

Flying Magazine

The horizontal stabilizer structure adjacent to the elevator position where the counterweight plug would have been installed displayed dents and paint scrapes consistent with contact with the counterweight plug. Photos of the horizontal stabilizer structure adjacent to the left elevator counterweight plug show a dented washer and scrapes.

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Unstable approaches

Professional Pilot

The Flight Safety Foundation’s approach and landing accident reduction tool kit goes on to point out that an approach is stable only if all the criteria in company standard operating procedures (SOPs) are met before or when reaching the applicable minimum stabilization in height.

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