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Jets
JetsTCAS WaRnings Dismissed
Boeing 737-300. No damage. No injuries.
Several factors increased the risk involved in the airline’s addition of a new stop on its scheduled passenger service. Among the risk factors at the new stop at Kosrae International Airport in the Federated States of Micronesia were high terrain, absence of a control tower and the availability of only nonprecision approach procedures.
Moreover, there was only one procedure that the flight crew could conduct: a circling nondirectional bea…
