Korean Air low approach over central Bangkok last night?
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I vividly remember attending a conference in London and seeing one of the first 747s passing overhead - and a broad Geordie voice saying "Hey, they fly a lot slower down here than they do up our way"
A B777 300 series at 2000 feet above ground will give the appearance of being very low especially around a built up area. I think, enkei, that what you saw was unusual in as much as aircraft are generally not normally that low in that area, but that it was in fact NOT below minimum safe altitude.
Bloody amazing. An obviously articulate person is shaken enough to drop a line to Pprune and explains perfectly clearly what he witnessed. And all he gets is rubbishing and general disbelief. Nah! It would not possibly Korean Air again in the news, would it? LNAV and VNAV gone a little bit wrong, maybe?
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"Landing lights" makes no sense.
Since people identified it as Korean Air, it must have had the lights illuminating the tail on as well. At 2300 an aircraft with landing lights on is a black shape behind a bright light.
Enkei, I hope you will get to the bottom of this. But so far you do not seem to get a lot of help....
Originally Posted by enkei
... the plane was very low and it was very well lit ...
Enkei, I hope you will get to the bottom of this. But so far you do not seem to get a lot of help....
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Sigh... yes, it is rather unfortunate how the online world has so become the domain of the killjoy, the naysayer, and the skofflaw to reason. I won't lavish such praise as to deem them cynics.
By the way, does anybody happen to have approach plates for Bangkok? They ought to settle a certain amount of debate.
By the way, does anybody happen to have approach plates for Bangkok? They ought to settle a certain amount of debate.
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How about this....missed approach RWY 19R, following the missed approach procedures, straight ahead to SVB VOR, right turn on SVB VOR R-215, climb to 3000 and hold at D7.0 SVB. Extended x-wind leg, before vectoring to a right turn to downwind, and vectoring again for a final again for RWY 19R...
