Some pea-soup fog in ALA today, so many shooting approaches followed by G/A and holding. Spookily watch FR24 today as colleague coming out of ALA on another airline was delayed by the fog, I watched EY A319 do about 20 or more turns, two approaches before buggering off sensibly to TSE. Several other g/a aircraft too, except for KC who seemed to go straight in (100m posted vis with RVR150m declared on METAR)
The posted accident site, is somewhere around 7km from the airport, but, if i retrace the g/a traffic from RW05 that I was watching on FR24, they all passed over this village as they executed a right turn... guessing this aircraft followed the same track, and rumour has it this was his third approach. News reports no smell of kerosene or aircraft fuel.. just a thought.
Last edited by udachi moya; 29th Jan 2013 at 15:42.