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Old 11th Mar 2009, 13:38
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Nightrider
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Thanks for the professional advice JW.
Also we are running well off-topic now, can you imagine in your retirement that there was another incident, the one I mentioned? I rest my case regarding LGW.
The very simple fact is that navigational equipment should always be used to back-up as much as possible.

If the Saudi 747 crew would have followed this procedure, their landing in Tambaram instead of Chennai would not have happened.
An F27 of NEPC landed in Hyderabad Air Force base instead of Hyderabad International.
The 737 of JetAirways landed on a military field instead of Coimbatore.
There are records of a landing in Juhu instead of Mumbai.

There are plenty of similar occurrences, the list is too long now, and somehow the picture always comes back to have some kind of "over-confidence" involved.

The Jetairfly incident should not have happened at all if the crew had applied their SOP. The TUI group uses the same SOP for all group members, the tuning and identifying of the nav-aids and their indications are mandatory, especially during visual approaches.