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thanx for the photo update, you dont always see the clean up and recovery of accidents (thos that leave enough to recover that is). Its obvious all involved put in sh@tloads of work to get the 747 back where it should have been in the first place, on a SERVICABLE runway!. With regards to topman or topshop or whatever the hell he calls himself, yes aircraft are regularly launched with small gaps but usually everybody is kept in the loop eg the pilot departing knows of the lander (so he can expedite) and vice versa
BUT the proviso to this is that they will
BOTH BE OPERATING NORMALLY . In the case here the learjet crew were perfectly in the right not to expect an aircraft to be cleared to depart in front when they are only a couple of miles out ( to do so here in the UK would be both career suicide and morally wrong). Think about it you have been flying your lear on one engine for 90 miles or so (according to report) and are approaching the most difficult phase of the flight when the only engine you have left starts playing up, Now you with your immense experience should be able to work out that these pilots were both up Sh1t creek without a boat let alone a paddle! and then just to make their day a commercial (passenger carrying?) plane is lined up in front. What do you do? In the unenviable situation that this crew were put in, the results were tragic, and a sad inditement on the controller involved, god help him coz from what i've seen on tv justice in Lagos can be swift and brutal
