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Conflicting Crew Accounts Follow Challenger 601 Road Landing Incident
Nigerian authorities are investigating a June incident where a US-registered Bombardier Challenger 601 inadvertently landed on a construction road near Asaba airport following a missed approach. The investigation is plagued by missing air traffic audio, unusable flight recorder data, and starkly differing testimonies between the operating crew and a cockpit observer regarding ground-proximity warnings. This bizarre sequence highlights how confirmation bias and poor crew resource management during instrument meteorological conditions can lead to catastrophic misidentifications.