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Soft landing? Pilot skills on display

Geoff Riley

4th March 2008

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The 130 passengers on this flight are probably mightily relieved that they had one of Lufthanza’s best pilots on board as this plane battled to cope with 130 mph cross winds as it tried to land at Hamburg airport. I will use it when teaching labour market economics and the importance of human capital in avoiding castastrophe. This BBC news audio-visual news clip is stunning.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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