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This is the story of air europa flight 911 on the 28th of october an air europa flight 911 was on a charter flight from katowice in poland to beirut in lebanon, the flight was to go to katowice and then come back and so they had left on the day before, the 27th and on the 28th they were heading back to katowice. Since this was a long flight the plane had three pilots on board with the third pilot taking up the jumpseat in the cockpit. The takeoff from beirut was all but normal and the flight was boring. By the time the 737 was in the bratislava FIR or the flight information region the crew got their first weather report for katowice, it wasnt perfect. Just 400 meters of visibility low clouds. It wasnt good weather but the captain remarked that it would be jyst enough to get the plane on the ground. With the weather on their minds the captain prepped the plane for landing and warsaw ATC let the plane descend down to 10000 feet. Then they were allowed to descend even lower and the captain got some bad news the visibility had deteriorated to 300 meters or just 900 feet, still within the allowable limit but theyd be cutting it pretty close to the edge. As the plane got closer to the runway the pilots got even more weather reports, to which the captain would say “well thats a bit difficult isnt it” yes mr captain it would be a bit difficult. As the plane leveled off at 4000 feet the jet was passing over the KTC VOR or a very important navigational beacon in katowice. The first officer knew that the weather was horrible and so he suggested that they fly the approach by the book so that theyd have a higher margin of error, but the captain wanted to do a straight in approach, which would get the plane on the ground faster and save fuel thus saving the airline money. 6.4 NM from the runway the the 737 was lined up with the runway the plane was configured for landing, the flaps were out the gear was out all that stuff, except for one tiny little thing, the plane was way too high to make a safe landing. For those of you that want the nitty gritty details the deviation was 5.62 dot. But this meant that the pilots would have to lose a lot of altitude very very fast, now the ideal thing to do right now would be to go around and try again but if you've watched this channel for a while then you know that thats not what the pilots did. They made some bad mistakes. The pilots not having the runway in sight asked for the runway lights to be set to maximum brightness. Then for the next 12 seconds the captain and the first officer were both telling each other that they were too high but neither pilot really did anything about it. Then as the pilots changed the autopilot mode the captain urged the first officer to descend he kept saying go downwards, go downwards. But they were having a bit of trouble wrestling the plane to get down to the height that they wanted to get it to, As the autopilot shouted approaching miniums the captain was telling his first officer to quote keep that slope. That approaching minimums call out then changed to a sink rate warning letting the pilots know that they were way too low and that they needed to arrest their descent. But their altitude kept dropping. Then the pilots saw the runway and the captain said insight.Just as the runway came into view the first officer for some reason handed off the plane to the captain by saying your controls, this cockpit was in chaos. The plane as a result was in chaos as well, they were just 50 feet off of the ground and they were descending at about 1200 feet per minute and they were just 50 feet off of the ground, the plane had dropped so much that the runway was no longer right in front of them it was still a few miles out. Then a loud band was heard as the plane started striking stuff on the ground. The captain just said oh my god, the plane then touched down well short of the runway and the throttles were advanced to max power, but the plane thinking that the pilots were trying to takeoff without prepping the plane for takeoff gave them a take off warning. The plane then lifted off again and as soon as it did the pilots got a stick shaker warning letting them know that the plane was close