These pilots made the worst possible mistake on this short flight and it cost them their lives. This was a terrible tragedy and the point of a pilot debrief is to share some of the lessons learned so that something like this doesn't happen again.

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NTSB investigation report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/A...

The NTSB accident report does not include the interview with the passenger, but the full NTSB docket with 67 different attachments can be found here: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNum...

The passenger interview can be found in Operations Attachment 1.

Additionally, a telephone interview with TransPacific revealed that the pilots had the option to stay the night in Philadelphia, but they chose to fly to Teterboro for the night. Here's a link to that article citing the interview: https://www.northjersey.com/story/new...



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