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Massey1Bravo
26th Aug 2009, 05:58
Does anyone have any detailed information regarding the causes to the KE DC-10 crash at Tripoli back in '89? Was there an accident report available?
Graybeard
26th Aug 2009, 15:06
I never saw an accident report, and heard very little discussion of it at McDouglas. Weren't they on an ADF approach in fog?
Mister Geezer
28th Aug 2009, 22:20
That sounds close to what happened. Apparently the ILS on 27 was unserviceable or unreliable.
As an aside, this is a current NOTAM for Tripoli:
HLLT I -WT-ILS/ LOCALIZER 109.5 RWY 27 U/S
FLIGHT LEVEL FROM SFC TO UNL
VALID FROM 1325 26-AUG-2009 TO 1130 15-SEP-2009: (A0103/09)
Sadly things have not moved on that much in 20 years! At least half of the navaids in Libya are usually inoperative!
singpilot
28th Aug 2009, 22:29
Can't tell you how many times in Africa where there was a NOTAM that survived even regime changes.
Remember one day inbound to Libreville. Got a NOTAM (in the dispatch package and again on ACARS) that mentioned the localizer portion of the ILS was U/S. VOR/DME was still in service.
Broke out overhead, and on outbound VOR leg was getting G/S signals, but no LOC. Ok, no prob, set #3 back to VOR. Turned inbound and on lining up, saw the reason for the LOC OTS.
It had a 737-200 parked on the antenna, slides deployed. Had happened that morning.
Was still there several years later.