Aircraft landed on opposite runway to that cleared for!
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Aircraft landed on opposite runway to that cleared for!
Incident: Kabo B742 at Sokoto on Oct 4th 2013, touched localizer antenna on approach and burst body gear tyres
A B742 on a Hajj flight in Nigeria landed on the opposite runway to that cleared, struck the localiser and damaged a number of tyres.
A B742 on a Hajj flight in Nigeria landed on the opposite runway to that cleared, struck the localiser and damaged a number of tyres.
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Are you surprised? Well I'm not. All that Swiss cheese stuff was probably nonsense, as there would have been no Swiss cheese there in the first place.
This is the fruit of cancerous corruption and nepotism. I know, it is not only on the dark continent.
This is the fruit of cancerous corruption and nepotism. I know, it is not only on the dark continent.
.. with 494 passengers and 18 crew, was cleared to land on Sokoto's runway 08 but landed on opposite runway 26..
...deflated while landing in Sokoto to pick up more pilgrims..
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I think the problems in this case started well before the numbers on the R/W.
What about the OBS on the R/W heading? What about the ILS freq, if was operative? ADF, VOR needles. Compass heading? Looking out the window, as suggested before?
What about the OBS on the R/W heading? What about the ILS freq, if was operative? ADF, VOR needles. Compass heading? Looking out the window, as suggested before?
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I think we might be getting it all wrong. From what I understand they were cleared for runway 08 but for some reason (which we don't know) declined to land on runway 08 and decided to land on runway 26.
Correct me if I am wrong but that is what I understood from the article.
Correct me if I am wrong but that is what I understood from the article.
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Not wrong runway!
The local news here is full of twisted and wrong information about flightaccidents - but most agree that they were offered rwy 08 but asked for 26 - so if they really hit the llz antenna it looks more like a visual 26 that went wrong
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Hi, are we being a bit mean towards the pilots of that plane, and should we not be directing some flack towards the Tower Controller?
I take it that at no time was he being radar vectored onto any part of the circuit, and was flying visually all the way.
The pilot must have intended from 60 miles out to fly towards a ten mile final on RW26. A ten mile final to RW08 is 20+ miles away and would have needed up to 20 degrees difference in course.
Then when he is on short final the Tower gives him the incorrect clearance to land on the other runway... enough to unstabalise any approach, and cause him to hit the aerials.
btw.. aren't the aerials each side of the runway, and not on the centre-line?
I take it that at no time was he being radar vectored onto any part of the circuit, and was flying visually all the way.
The pilot must have intended from 60 miles out to fly towards a ten mile final on RW26. A ten mile final to RW08 is 20+ miles away and would have needed up to 20 degrees difference in course.
Then when he is on short final the Tower gives him the incorrect clearance to land on the other runway... enough to unstabalise any approach, and cause him to hit the aerials.
btw.. aren't the aerials each side of the runway, and not on the centre-line?
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aren't the aerials each side of the runway, and not on the centre-line?
But this guy hit the localizer array:
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Then when he is on short final the Tower gives him the incorrect clearance to land on the other runway... enough to unstabalise any approach, and cause him to hit the aerials.
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Many moons ago approaching Lagos and clearance given to land despite there being another aircraft on the runway (moving slowly, not on a take off or landing run).
We went around but were then berated by air traffic control for not having obeyed their instructions 'Why did you not land when ordered'!
It's a different world.
We went around but were then berated by air traffic control for not having obeyed their instructions 'Why did you not land when ordered'!
It's a different world.