Elcan made this comment;
"Some bright spark pointed out that there's been hundreds of succesful approaches since these works have been underway with no mishaps but this is nothing more than the amount of time it took for the inevitable to happen.
I suspect we will find out in the next year or two as legal due process following this accident gets underway that operating an international airport at which aircraft operated by airlines with poor safety records (like OZ) arrive after 10, 12, 14 hour and longer flights, without a temporary PAPI or VASIS let alone a glideslope and expecting nothing to go wrong means they are complicit in the end result.
Applying aggressive ATC standards, which are aimed at the level of familiarity of the locals who operate into the field on a regular basis, to these hapless foreign operators after ULR flights, knowing they are not the sharpest, does not help."
I am frankly staggered that an international airfield is allowed to operate in such a fashion, no ILS no PAPIS and frequent very high feed-ins due to a compressed and difficult airspace situation. There is a lot more to this tragedy than the initial reaction implies.
Last edited by nigegilb; 8th Jul 2013 at 03:42.