The word on the ground at Agana is that the loaders couldn't open the rear hold due damage.
The crew must have known of the damage, surely.
The minima for the LLZ without DME is 1440 ft from memory, so designed to stop you from hitting Nimitz Hill.
I would have thought that the FMC map would have given enough info re distance to run ( IF you were going to treat the approach as if it had DME) as it should have been sufficiently accurate from updates from Saipan on descent. Bottom line I guess, don't go below minima.
A severe case of get home itus. I would not like to be in the crews shoes right now.
Last edited by Roadrunner; 7th February 2003 at 23:31.