a near disaster
Truly ridiculous. As is ganging up on Plugg who just might have been being facetious ?
But I take my hat off to the DM for even managing to work the 1958 Munich crash into an otherwise underwhelming story about an everyday event.
I had to smile to myself when I heard this on the news this morning.
All sorts of reasons- who for example west of Poland refers tot he height in metres so was it 400m or 400ft.
I would have thought that 400m up on say an approach into LHR would see you over somewhere like Twickenham with three and a bit miles to run and barelya go around at all , more lie an aborted approach -do the crew even go the the go around drill -TOGA ,rotate x degrees nose up etc at that height and distance or do they just fly it gently back to 2000 ft or whatever the standard missed approach altitude is.
trouble with these stories of course is that the media do not deploy especially useless journos on the aviation stories so the same degree of crass exaggeration, lack of any understanding, sensationalism versus truth on just about every subject and then they wonder why it is a derided profession
All sorts of reasons- who for example west of Poland refers tot he height in metres so was it 400m or 400ft.
I would have thought that 400m up on say an approach into LHR would see you over somewhere like Twickenham with three and a bit miles to run and barelya go around at all , more lie an aborted approach -do the crew even go the the go around drill -TOGA ,rotate x degrees nose up etc at that height and distance or do they just fly it gently back to 2000 ft or whatever the standard missed approach altitude is.
trouble with these stories of course is that the media do not deploy especially useless journos on the aviation stories so the same degree of crass exaggeration, lack of any understanding, sensationalism versus truth on just about every subject and then they wonder why it is a derided profession
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Google Alert has just found the most accurate reporting of the incident.
Seconds from disaster: Manchester United caught up in German airport near-miss drama | Football | Sport | Daily Star. Simply The Best 7 Days A Week
Well done George. Excellent reporting of the facts!
Seconds from disaster: Manchester United caught up in German airport near-miss drama | Football | Sport | Daily Star. Simply The Best 7 Days A Week
Well done George. Excellent reporting of the facts!
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The comments under the Daily Star article are almost as funny as the article itself. One said that they couldn't believe that all of the team flew in the same aircraft, and hadn't they learned something from the Munich crash 
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Now why do I get the impression the M.E.N. "report" was compiled by, a, erm, Man.City supporter.
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