BOAC...
Do you mean the Dutch Safety Board preliminary report of 4 March 2009 or are you referring to another report there? I have read that preliminary report several times if that is the one you are referring to and I do not find some of the stuff that I would need to draw the same conclusions reached here by others posting, hence my wish to wait for the final report.
For instance, the preliminary report reads that the localiser was intercepted at 5.5 miles when that would obviously seem to be a bit too high for a tidy intercept, yes. What we still don't know from that, though, is what exactly Dutch ATC told the accident crew to do, what role the ATC clearance given played in the late, high intercept that might well have contributed to this accident with an obviously unstabilised approach.
I am keeping an open mind about a lot of this and it is simply that I would like to see all the information, much more than is in the preliminary report. There you have quite a bit about what happened (from the FDR, I assume) but nothing about why it happened, when that is the part I really need to know. Of course the Dutch Safety Board needs to deliberate on that in collaboration with the Turkish and U.S. authorities before they can tell us that, while the FDR data was easy to read out and report on.
Last edited by chuks; 6th February 2010 at 13:10.