The pilots of the de Havilland DHC-8 failed to recognize, before their bounced landing, that substantial variations in the airplane’s power settings had created an unstable approach; the landing damaged the airplane’s lower fuselage.
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Unstable and Unrecognized
The DHC-8 bounced on touchdown at an airport in northern Canada; the first officer planned to go around, but the captain intervened after realizing the fuselage was damaged.
