Timehri (now Cheddi Jagan) is well known for night fog. As someone else said, the ILS is there in name only most of the time. Those who know it treat it with great respect.
BWIA had 2 over-run incidents in the distant past, none of them as serious as this.
A Viscount overrun that was due to reverted rubber hydroplaning, and an MD-83 that was hit by lightning on the T/O roll and aborted (below V1) and overran. The runway was noted for slipperiness
Too early to speculate what happened, or why it happened, but when BWIA was closed, many of the more experienced pilots were picked up by sandpit operators. The pilots union was squeezed out, and a new philosophy was put in place. Let us say it was slanted to "productivity".
They say that a safety culture dies slowly unless nurtured carefully.
It has been 5 years since the old regime was broken up, I hope the replacement will stand scrutiny in the investigation.
Last edited by ZQA297/30; 30th Jul 2011 at 19:24.