I join Wilton in calling it pilot error. Regardless of the weather, or equipment failure, it is pilots responsibility to land or choose to land an an alternate. It is a requirement for all commercial flight planning to have alternate airports as part of the flight plan.
Tower personnel also always give runway condition advisories for any condition which might influence landing conditions. The days of "flying blind" are long gone. If runway conditions were below minimums for visibility for landing.. a divert to alternate is required.. if Ice is on runway and minimum traction requirements are not met.. divert to alternate is required [ground crews now have machinery that physically test runway conditions and report it to tower] Several bad choices were made to continue the approach and landing, it appears. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:14 AM, WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Pilot error, either way. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Bennell" <rbenn...@bennell.ca> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Bad week for A-320 > > > On 29/03/2015 4:59 PM, Peter Frederick wrote: >> >>> Or the plane slid on an icy runway and either overran the end or exited >>> off the side (which is what the title implies). Bad things happen when the >>> landing gear sink into mud! >>> >>> My guess is that the landing was fairly normal except perhaps for a >>> variable cross-wind, and they got in trouble on the ground, just like the >>> Delta did in Boston or JFK a couple weeks ago. A slick runway without >>> warning can get scary fast, especially if it's only slick on one side. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> News this morning says they landed 1100 feet short of the runway, and >> took out a power line and an antenna array on the way in, then slid on the >> belly onto the runway after losing the landing gear and one of the engines. >> >> Pilot error? Or computer error? >> Lousy weather at the time. Snowing hard and after midnight so lousy >> visibilty. >> >> RB >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
