Near Miss at Tulla
 

Anybody hear any details about this preliminary report ?

"A Jetstar Airbus came within 20 feet of a fogbound Melbourne Airport tarmac before aborting its second attempt to land"

This from Crikey.com.au today:

"5.*CASA & Vaile let Jetstar probe Jetstar near miss


Ben Sandilands writes:


Only today will a full dossier on the latest Jetstar incident be delivered to the independent accident and incident investigator, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.


It will contain everything Jetstar has discovered as part of its own internal review about how one of its jets came to within 20 feet of the ground at Melbourne Airport in fog during an aborted landing.


The dossier lands at the ATSB in a near dead heat with*a statement from*Transport Minister, Mark Vaile, who said through a spokesperson that he "has been advised that both the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the ATSB are seeking further information from Jetstar."


This sees the responsible minister, and the separate aviation investigation and regulatory arms,*both focused on the same alarming incident on the same day nearly two months after it happened.


By world standards this makes the governance of air safety regulation in Australia a joke.


Jetstar did the right thing by Australian rules. It reported the original incident the day it occurred and said it would conduct an investigation.


After a second look at the incident, it found out things about last minute decisions taken too close to the ground, and set about retraining the captain concerned as well as alerting its flight crews on the standard procedure for dealing with minimal landing conditions.


But airlines in Europe or North America don’t even expect to be allowed to keep serious matters involving flight standards in-house. Jetstar would have been swarmed over by Federal Aviation Authority inspectors on experiencing and reporting such an incident at, say, San Francisco.


And US carriers have come to expect and pro-actively work with the FAA, because it names and shames for things that go wrong or depart from the rules.


Mr Vaile seems happy for CASA to have a close relationship with the carriers that keeps the public out of the loop when it comes to safety deficiencies, and appears to work more on trust than oversight.


This was strikingly illustrated by the Lockhart River crash, where CASA couldn’t even effectively regulate the safety of*the tiny carrier Transair, and failed to communicate what it did know about its dangerous operations to the public in a timely manner.


Why wasn’t the Jetstar incident promptly investigated by the ATSB, and is CASA properly funded and equipped to fulfil its safety regulation obligations."

Someone, give that man a Tooheys New:ok:.

telephone, have you cut and paste various parts of Ben's article because it reads like crap. It jumps from one point to another and then back to the original. Please tell me that's not a true representation of the entire article.

Beyond that, has anybody got a link to the ATSB report? I'd prefer to read it from the horses mouth.

I wonder if this (sounds more like CFIT than a near miss) incident is the same one referred to in A320 Go around thread of a few weeks ago?

It may well be a late missed approach from loss of visibility after Cat I and 20 feet is not unusual. I know we don't have Cat II in Australia, but a touch on the runway is possible on a "normal" loss of visibility missed approach from that, unusual but have done it.

The usual "experts of doom and gloom" need a reality fix here, I am no defender of any idiot and if the rules were broken, hang them high, but get the facts, 'cause it might be you in front of the gaffer one day

:ok:

Big deal, I did a go-around in PER a couple of years ago when I flew into a wall of water while in the flare. It was at night with a strong north westerly and passing showers.

One second the runway lights were there the next second it was all black and wet. Time to get outa there. If I was any more than ten feet off the runway I'd be surprised. Flew a standard missed approach and went a did it right the second time.

Regards,
BH.

If this incident is the same as one I've heard about, the gear was up when Mrs Airbus squawked TWENTY. :eek:

Claret touches as much wood as he can.

Now I am no Airbus expert, but I expect Mrs Airbus would not have squaked 'twenty' if the gear was up, she would have been busy with many other calls that take precedence!:eek:

Was that a pun about A320's & trees Clarrie???

Unintentional Buster, unintentional.

If the story is true, it was meant to indicate empathy for the poor bugga who got into that position, because no one would do it knowingly.

While the punters in the back, none the wiser, still tickled pink with themselves for saving twenty bucks! :}

Howard, obviously I've never been there in real life but I know that in the sim we've still had rad alt altitude call outs whilst in the middle of a GPWS windshear and then pull up message. I think it depends where it all is in the sequence.

Yet another example of how the most benign of days turn to crap. I hope the J* boys and/or girls are back flying the line again. No one wishes for this kind of crap to happen to another.

Whatever the merits of this, once again we see the spin that Jetstar management attempts to impart. Qantas group to the rescue again!

P.S. Westaway... there is no automatic go around system on the A320!

Okay, well now we know why it failed then!!:p

Capt. you beat me to the draw...
"Qantas group's safety procedures" always drag out the link to claim credibility...

Nonetheless just ask the guys that did the audit at J* how closely aligned to Qantas their flight operations are.......Didn't the little irish turd refuse to allow Qantas to audit "his" flight operations? Hmm

For the record: It is not a criticism of the hard working and underpaid employees, it is a criticism of the lack of consistency across the so called "group"

I'm voting PPRune 1 in the next federal election. You only get the truth from Prune.

But, could it have been retracted in the belief that having pressed the TOGA button/s the Airbus would rocket skywards with the (B717) auto-throttle setting the desired TOGA power?

There's also the little known issue about using the Thronomeister in foggy conditions at lower altitude...and...on a Wednesday!

Kremin, if you engage SRS with the autopilot on does it not "go-around"