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Old 25th Dec 2009, 01:37
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PK-KAR
 
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Circuit flown at 150 - 350' AGL immediately after a missed approach...
Recipe for disaster... they overshot the centerline and the Capt. appears to have been caught with a little confusion... the 2 hills are supposed to be to his left in the turn to final, but ended up being caught between the 2... with no sight of the runway (blocked by the 2nd hill, which they flew into). But then, I wasn't there...

Shall anybody call DGAC and advise about some other aircraft types there having similar in-house "conversion"?
Well, there's the F-28 converted to cargo by Gatari... operates (or planned to) the same route as the Aviastar 146. For Wamena... anything imported from outside the valley gets flown in!

Would you look for the vital clue that would explain a fatal accident - If the results were inconvenient. Perhaps they forgot?
What would be needed for the test? Wamena is pretty remote by our standards, and I wouldn't be surprised if the hospital would run out of certain stuff on a regular basis... but yes, it would have been better with...
Unfortunately, the culture here seems to resist post mortem examination, unless it was a crime scene.
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