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Tourism releases its official report. investigators cite a chain of causes. first, the crew was late in modifying their approach strategy and did not properly configure the plane for landing. the sequence of events in this particular accident was in a very compressed time scale. they can t process or assimilate the information fast enough to identify it, understand it, correct it and execute. but the fundamental cause cited by investigators is the pilot s failure to correct the abnormally high rate of descent of 3300 feet per minute. investigators say the error occurred because of confusion about a crucial knob that controls both vertical speed and flight path angle. they mistakenly believed that they were setting up a 3.3-degree descent profile, but with the mode selection they had made, they set up a 3,300-foot-per-minute rate, which is plane struggled to make. ....

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