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Old 27th Jul 2013, 10:42
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Wally Mk2
 
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The system has got to allow all A/C inbound to a fog shrouded drome especially when it wasn't forecast initially to be informed asap. It seems insane with all the technology, the huge costs to run our sad aviation industry with poor infrastructure that we can have in this modern day & age an Airliner that could have ended up a smoking hulk at some uncontrolled basic drome or worse some farmers paddock!!!
Flying is only as safe as it's weakest link. The Plane manufacturers go to extraordinary lengths to make their planes safe for us yet we might as well be flying wooden bi-planes as in some ways we haven't learnt a damned thing since the first recorded plane crash!

'601'....45 mins from push back to 10K is fast sometimes from some of our madhouse dromes!


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