Originally Posted by
akerosid
Can you give a more detailed account of this (and I realise there are limitations to what you can say, before the report comes out, but just in general terms)? All I've heard is that they went too low on finals and came close to a hill, but would be curious to know more ...
Story I heard was they were way too high on finals, decided to do a descending orbit, got well below the runway and had to climb up to the runway to land, getting quite close to a few chimney pots while doing so.
Cork airport is perched on top of a hill for those not familiar with it.