Originally Posted by
chevvron
The pilot saw the correct airfield, it was just that all 8 engines on full power increased his radius of turn so it looked to the spectators as though he was going for Blackbushe by mistake. I was standing behind the radar controller at the time and heard him continually updating the pilot to try to correct him.
A few days later when I vectored it, I made sure the same thing didn't happen again!
Thinking back, I've seen the horrendous crash on YouTube at an air display in the USA where a B52 tried to turn in to the airfield; the angle of bank got higher and higher and it looks to me it went over the vertical and then sideslipped into the ground from about 1,000ft.
After that I suspect the pilots were briefed to use a certain maximum AOB during low level manouevres hence the pilot of the Farnborough one couldn't turn into the 'correct' airfield without exceeding this angle.