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Crash in Jamaica teaches: don't land with wind in tail on short runway under violent tropical rains

Rome, Italy - The considerations by Capt. Renzo Dentesano, investigator of aeronautical accidents

In the late evening of last December 23 a Boeing B-737/800 aircraft of the American Airlines, took off from Miami (FL) with 148 passengers and six members on board, has tried a nocturnal landing on the only airport's runway of the capital Kingston (Jamaica), named 12/30 from the direction of its board, while downpours of rain from thundery clouds of an intense sub-tropical perturbation raged, linked...

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Rome, Italy, 12/30/2009 11:51
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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