MK Airlines B747 crash at Halifax

[ExSimGuy]

Still only just over half way through the report. I think I get the implications as I "skipped" to the findings.

As usual, it seems to be a "chain of errors" (and I'm currently feasting on a bit of crow pie after my hasty comment earlier about the airline, although IMHO they received, and deserved, some of the blame)

My gut reaction is sadness and helplessness that these guys were lost when, had the locator antennas been on higher frangible masts, instead of a very solid earth and concrete berm, they would probably have "got away with it" and lived to fly another day (and "lesons learned"). Sad enough that 7 crew perished - had it been a passenger flight, the deaths would have been in the hundreds. For a few bob, the airport could have made things much more survivable for take-off problems or landing over-runs