ampan,
Good reasoning but if Collins has an old flightplan which uses the words MCMDO MCMURDO to represent the end waypoint, why is it unreasonable to suppose that this point is, indeed, McMurdo Station?
After all, with the NDB out of action, getting into the overhead isn't the aim of the game anymore...
Surely it is infinitely more careless for the company to have issued the numerous materials listed by
Desert Dingo indicating anything but a track going down to the NDB or TACAN or overhead, take your pick?!
To plagiarize a phrase:
I’m not suggested they were insane or murderers. I’m suggesting they were careless, in that they disregarded the potential issue concerning the final waypoint, and went ahead without checking. That was a clear-cut error, in my opinion.
Greybeard,
Again, they were flying 260 knots at 700 feet.
What? All the way from Auckland?
When were they doing that?
I bet the crew wish they had offset their track 27 miles to the west of what they programmed...
What is min clean in a DC-10 at ~200T?