The landing attempt at 0800 was repelled by enemy fire.
A listening opportunity early this morning, the sixth since the spacecraft's landing attempt on Friday, again produced nothing but silence.
The article suggested that proper action by the commander could have allowed the second landing attempt to proceed despite computer problems.
Homasubi decided to delay any landing attempt until he could learn more.
Flight 980 then made a second landing attempt, but it, too, was unsuccessful because of alignment with the runway.
There were several more Soviet aerial attacks, but no further landing attempts.
They made two unsuccessful landing attempts before crashing on their third try, killing all three airmen.
After the crash, weather led the crew to abort a second landing attempt.
He had no power to circle around for another landing attempt.
The aircraft crashed on its third landing attempt in severe weather with a high vertical speed.