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Old 17th Mar 2017, 10:52
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minimaman
 
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unlikely flight track was approach to blacksod LH

Yes crab this crew were too experienced to deliberately approach blacksod via such an obstacle and unnecessarily indirect route when time was of the essence.This is a VTOL aircracft afterall.It appears that the approach they actually made was for blackrock Lighthouse and that for whatever navigation system reason they were not at Blacksod.Its late at night ur under time pressure you believe ur at the correct destination the fms says you are and you spot a lighthouse outside this confirms you have arrived and the letdown begins.At night a lighthouse is a lighthouse .
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