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Old 4th Mar 2015, 12:50
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Luke SkyToddler
 
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Kathmandu vs the A330 is an accident that's been long overdue to happen.

Poor vis and 10 kt tailwind component is the norm rather than the exception - and the reported tower wind is normally nothing like what's actually encountered.

Combined with that god awful VOR approach which as I recall requires -6 degrees FPA from 15 miles right down to 5 miles, even fully configured the speed is right up at the barber's pole at that 5 mile mark, you always get a late stabilization around 500 feet if you're lucky.

In addition, aircraft are normally tankering fuel therefore they are close to max landing weight, the runway is very short and has a dirty great hump in the middle.

It's really not a place the A330 or any other heavy jet should be going to, in my opinion.

There's a heavily built up slum right off the far threshold so they are very very lucky not to have a large fatality count.
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