Originally Posted by
Lake1952
It did descend to within 70 feet of the tower elevation, and it wasn't far from directly overflying the tower. There is no minimizing this event...like the close call runway incursions of a year ago, another narrowly missed disaster!
True. As I said, I don't want to minimize it — it was a near miss of an accident that would have been catastrophic. But accuracy counts and we can usually count on the Daily Mail not to bother with accuracy.