re: Women Pilots

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The female co-pilot on a UPS Airbus A300 caused their plane to crash

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On September 9, 2014, the NTSB announced that the probable cause of the accident was that the aircrew had made an unstabilized approach into Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport during which they failed to adequately monitor their altitude. The aircraft descended below the minimum descent altitude when the runway was not yet in sight, resulting in controlled flight into terrain about 3,300 feet (1,100 yd; 1,000 m) short of the runway threshold.[21] The NTSB also found that contributing factors in the accident were:

1. the flight crew's failure to properly configure and verify the flight management computer for the profile approach

2. the captain's failure to communicate his intentions to the first officer once it became apparent the vertical profile was not captured

3. the flight crew's expectation that they would break out of cloud at 1,000 feet [300 m] above ground level [due to incomplete weather information]

4. the first officer's failure to make the required minimums callouts

5. the captain's performance deficiencies, likely due to factors including, but not limited to, fatigue, distraction, or confusion, consistent with performance deficiencies exhibited during training

6. the first officer's fatigue due to acute sleep loss resulting from her ineffective off-duty time management[7][1][22][23]