View Full Version : "Plane flies too low into airport"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4744614.stm
lobby
23rd Feb 2006, 18:32
"It looked like it was only 200 to 300 feet up as it nearly hit the straw stack. It happened so quickly it was like a boom," he said.
How high does he stack his straw?
aerobat 1971
23rd Feb 2006, 18:46
Maybe EGBB will get round to fixing the glideslope on 33 some day soon. It's been unservicable for some time now.
Cheers,
David
EbonyGrove
23rd Feb 2006, 18:57
Probably woke Puff the Magic Dragon from his slumber too. "...wallowed in the autumn mist in a land called Honiley..." :}
Jerricho
23rd Feb 2006, 22:03
"The pilot on the plane must have seen us. We were looking after the cattle in the shed and the cattle went mad,"
There ya go........blame Mad Cow on air travel :E
Turn It Off
23rd Feb 2006, 22:38
Isn't it part of the approach checks?
PNF : "Cows"
PF : " Check"
PNF: "Roger, Go around"
eyeinthesky
24th Feb 2006, 08:25
Close to the ground near HON with no glideslope on 33? That would be a LOC/DME approach, then.
Without wanting to pre-judge the investigation and all that, my money is on the fact he was using the HON DME for his approach and not the 33 LOC/DME. Thus he was down at low level at the right DME for the approach, except he was 6 miles from where he should have been.
Shades of the Korean Air Guam crash.:ugh: ..?
ukatco_535
24th Feb 2006, 08:48
"The pilot on the plane must have seen us. We were looking after the cattle in the shed and the cattle went mad,"
Now that is low - must have a big shed though for the a/c to be able to fly through it and see him tending the cows inside.
Wonder if his giant haystack is in the shed too.
chevvron
24th Feb 2006, 08:58
Was it 6 statute miles, or actually 5nm? If it was 5nm, then in spite of the AIP requirement to follow the GP, it could have been ICAO legal (NDB OCH 475ft)