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Old 21st Dec 2010, 08:00
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Heading, what I took from the report was that neither ATC or the flight crew understood that this earth wall was there. In fact ATC thought the airport owner were talking about the airport having two runways.

I think the first time anyone in the incident knew about the wall other than the airport owner was when the aircraft hit it.

The factors leasing up o the accident aside, that wall being there along with the markings / lack of hazard warnings and the published charts... Is pretty bad IMO.. I'm sup prised it was the first time it was hit... The pictures from the police helicopter show it was hard to pick out.

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