Air disaster prog - Avianca 707 crash
Did anyone see this on Wed (20/04). I was quite amazed at the end to see blame heaped on ATC! (by pax and pax Lawyer though) The crew who never bothered to get updated weather through the entire flight and just continued on even though there were clearly massive delays at JFK. No real Mayday declared until it was too late (Go around). I am sure Avianca must have had a fuel divert policy which was totally ignored. Language problems compounded the issue but basically to my mind the crew got themselves into a corner that they coudn't get out of. The FE must have known that they only had enough fuel for one shot at the approach (?) well beforehand.
Last edited by slice; 21st Apr 2005 at 09:53.