The aviation affairs editor of the Dutch liberal daily. “Handelsblad,” commenting on the Libyan plane disaster, called the pilot “extremely clumsy” in his handing of the plane. A sandstorm, the editor said, may well have hindered a normal landing, but since a sandstorm has “no influence” over a height of three kilometers, it could hardly have affected the plane’s navigation instruments.
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