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New York City, March 5th, 2015. A Delta Airlines MD88 is on final approach to Runway 13 at La Guardia international airport. The city is being battered by a snowstorm, and the pilots of this flight are cutting it close with their decision to land. Their aircraft is heavy, the runway is short, and when they break out of the clouds just seconds before landing, they discover that it’s covered with snow. There is now no margin for error. If the pilots make any mistakes, their aircraft could slide off the runway, and into the freezing waters of Flushing Bay. What neither pilot knows is that on this morning, a combination of bad weather and psychological factors would conspire with a unique feature of the MD88s design, to make a safe landing all but impossible....



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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Endel Ad
01:51 Flight background
02:42 Pilot backgrounds
04:00 Weather discussions
05:20 Braking Action
07:01 Autobrake
08:40 Approach
10:26 Landing
12:00 Postcrash Confusion
13:51 Investigation
16:00 A concerning finding
17:33 Recommendations and Improvement