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Old 15th Jun 2010, 13:49
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"Did not" - In which case it must be asked why did he issue the 'go-round' commands? Did he 'guess' the height of the a/c? There are so many fingers in this pie, guesses, possible flight paths, this and that, mis-translations, conspiracy theories it is impossible to separate truth from fiction.

I still cannot see why ATC is really involved here - even more so if there was no PAR equipment. If I had been that crew, and I had no specific instructions on "you have to do this and that" in my Ops Manual, I would have flown the 2xNDB approach exactly as any other - as they are meant to be flown, without any 'radar' input. Planned and flown my own glidepath, checked my own heights (baro), and probably ignored all protestation from anyone outside the cockpit in view of my cargo - OR requested a PAR.
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