Originally Posted by ExSimGuy
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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
Can't agree more, "if only".
Similar to the SQ crash in TPE - if only there had been a physical barrier to prevent the 747 from lining up on the closed runway
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