If I was a friend or relative of someone killed in that "accident", my blood would be boiling too. I would be furious with the airline and its management etc.....

But as a fare paying passenger, it makes my blood run cold to be honest. And I wonder how many other pilots there are like that out there in whose hands I regularly place my life. In this respect, I blame the Authorities - ie: CASA.

I'm sure I'm not on my own there.

Di :*

So many ignorant questions 56P!!

"It is obvious that the aircraft flew into terrain. Just why is the question?"

An FO without a GPS approach rating was sitting beside a Capt who was flying too fast and below the published minimum altitude step which is ONLY there to provide terrain clearance. Simple as that.

"Will the design of GPS approaches be questioned?"

The approach misses the terrain by the prescribed minimum according to international standards supported by CASA.

If you don't like flying efficient and safe procedures, don't fly at all, catch the train (just be careful of level crossings).......or..............follow the PROVEN SAFE procedure altitudes, tracks and speeds. Simple as that.

Transair are still operating in PNG. Maybe the CAA up here are blind as I would have thought Les Wright would no longer be considered a "FIT AND PROPER PERSON" in the eyes of a regulator,given his involvement in the accident at Lockhart River.

Hopefully Les Wright will be prosecuted, and as for the Captain, it’s a tragedy that his poor airmanship had to take such a consummate professional as my husband and other innocent lives with him.

Fiona

Roaring rimau "follow the PROVEN SAFE procedure altitudes, tracks and speeds."

If I was the lone voice complaining about the RNAV chart design, I would question my own confusion with them on occasions.

However almost all the guys I fly with think it's dodgy not having one reference distance to the Mapt. There are many posts suggesting the same.

It's not really ignorance mate, it's about poor presentation and ambiguous, confusing information.

They will be changed. The tragedy is, it may only be after another aeroplane spears in and the cockpit chaos is captured on tape.

Just got the latest "Flight Safety", CASA's premier safety communication tool to the unwashed. In it, I read "In the Lockhart River accident, the crew commenced an instrument approach but clearly broke off the approach, descending below the applicable lowest safe altitude to maintain or gain visual cues." (Bolding mine) Elsewhere in the mag I read "This magazine undergoes extensive technical and fact checking process." Have read CASA's and Coroners reports in detail. Advice welcome as to should I ask CASA for next weeks Tatts numbers.