"Roger Long" wrote in message
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote

22,000nm then he blows it on a relatively short voyage home! Yikes!

Not uncommon. It's easy to let your guard down when you are near the end.
I know of a case where two pilots who had been flying too many hours both
fell asleep on final approach. I've forgotten what happened but I think
the both lived even though the plane was wrecked. There are lots of cases
of drivers falling asleep a few blocks from home.

After all, the end is when you are most tired.

--
Roger Long

Happened at the end of the Parmelia Race from Plymouth to Fremantle in
Western Australia in 1979 - one entrant crashed into Rottnest Island, about
8 miles from the finish.