The plane carrying nine NTSB investigators to Aspen the next day also missed approaches before landing, said NTSB spokesman Terry Williams.
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ATC may simply acknowledge the missed approach call or modify the missed approach instructions, for example, with vectors to another fix.
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The cockpit crew also talked about a missed approach on the voice recorder, said James Hall, chairman of the safety board.
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After several missed approaches, the plane flew north over the community, and turned east, and then south to make one final pass.
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The cause of the crash was determined to be the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a missed approach.
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The pilot must maintain visual contact with the airport at all times; loss of visual contact requires execution of a missed approach procedure.
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"' Aerosvit Flight 241 "'was a scheduled passenger flight from Kiev in Ukraine which crashed during a missed approach into Thessaloniki in Greece.
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However, it concluded that the captain accepted the large course correction and the crew continued flying an unstabilized approach instead of executing a missed approach.
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At 7 : 50, a special weather observation reported thin obscurement, with an overcast holding pattern, making attempts to land, but both made missed approaches.
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The recordings show that the flight crew initiated a right turn according to the lateral missed approach trajectory without succeeding in reaching the vertical trajectory.
