Some light in the darkness...
I read these two things but mistook the date of the preliminary report for 4 March 2009, the date of the press release. Kiittos! (Well, something like that, anyway.)
"Taken to task," well... If someone needs to treat a bare, factual report like a Christmas tree to hang it with tinsel and strings of little blinking lights and then invite us all to admire his handiwork perhaps he should expect some of us to be left cold by this accomplishment. "Vz," indeed...
The report tells us, for instance, that the accident crew intercepted the localiser at 5.5 nm. That is obviously very tight so that the next question must be "Why did that happen?" Were they following an ATC clearance that required that outcome or did they have, perhaps, too high a speed (when these are two things that might lead to this outcome from which we should draw very different conclusions)?
A good report has a high signal-to-noise ratio, so to speak but lots of the stuff I am reading here is mostly just noise so that I tend to tune it out.
Is there a date promised for the final report?
Last edited by chuks; 6th February 2010 at 17:20.