Eyesight Defect Forced Landing

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The TSB said the maintenance engineer, who had 15 years' experience and joined Northway about two months before the incident, set the magnetos wrong because he couldn't see the indented spot marked with red paint that shows where they should be set.

"It was a series of coincidences," the TSB's Peter Hildebrand said Wednesday. "We're certainly grateful to see the pilot made a safe landing on the highway."

"When I was watching the Gimli Glider coming in, I was 11 and it wasn't fear," [Kerry Seabrook] told the Free Press last August.

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Eyesight Defect Forced Landing

Engineer set magnetos wrong; Cessna touched down on highway

It's not black and white, but not seeing red and green was one of the reasons a passenger plane was fo...

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