A final report on the July 30, 2011 Caribbean Airlines crash has confirmed that it was due to pilot error.
“The cause of the accident was the aircraft touching down far beyond the touchdown zone, due to the captain maintaining excess power during the flare and not using the airplane’s full deceleration capacity, resulting in the aircraft over running the pavement and fracturing the fuselage,” GINA quoted Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira as telling reporters yesterday.
Teixeira was at the time delivering post cabinet briefs at the Office of the President in the
