PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Jet goes down on its way to Medellin, Colombia
Old 13th Dec 2016, 19:20
  #890 (permalink)  
Chronus
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Hotel Sheets, Downtown Plunketville
Age: 76
Posts: 0
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Ex ATC :

(1) ."2933: Requesting vectors for inbound leg ma'am

(2). 2933: We are with emergency fuel ma'am. We're established on final approach course. request immediate descent, LMI 2933

(3). Approach: LMI 2933 you can just turn right now to start your descent. You have traffic 1 mile and below
2933: Traffic in sight, no factor(?) and we request to join the localizer for once (?)

(4). LMI 2933: We have it on TCAS and just above. ma'am we're on final course

(5). LMI 2933 Ma'am LMI 2933 is with total failure, total electric and fuel
Approach: Runway is clear, LMI 2933 and fire services are rolled
2933: Copied, LMI 2933... vectors vectors ma'am vectors to the runway"

In 1 they request assistance for landing and yet in 2 above the crew appear to know their position.
At 3 they seem to be making a rather strange request.
At 4 once again it would seem they know their position, that they are aligned with the rwy.
At 5 they are calling for assistance to steer them towards the rwy.

Seems very confusing just reading it at my desk on the ground. I wonder what it must have sounded like to the controller.
Chronus is offline