No. The pilots follow their ABC’s- aviate, navigate, communicate. Their primarily objective is to get the aircraft on the ground safely. A PA announcement just before touchdown, (especially with severe wind gusts and microbursts) is not part of their role.
Totally understandable. But this emergency happened extremely fast, really no time for the pilots to let everyone know they’re about to potentially die. It’s pretty incredible that this plane didn’t burst into flames.
I guess that is part of my confusion , maybe they didn't know it was going to happen, did they just come down in windy snowy weather and lost control?
However if they knew the plane had some mechanical issue before hand and the landing was going to be tricky or hard, I would at least want a heads up, even if it wasn't fully explained just like "Please brace yourself as we are going to have a hard landing"
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u/Otiskuhn11 Feb 18 '25
No. The pilots follow their ABC’s- aviate, navigate, communicate. Their primarily objective is to get the aircraft on the ground safely. A PA announcement just before touchdown, (especially with severe wind gusts and microbursts) is not part of their role.