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by breezeblock |
2002-06-12 02:27:13 |
A pilot of a BA flight had a faulty light on his instruments showing that he was flying too low to land safely. The pilot decided to believe his altimeter and landed anyway. Did he get praised? No, he got sent back to flight school to "re-train". Err.. Hello! what was he supposed to do? fly around until his fuel ran out and the plane landed itself? Vertically? The light would never have gone out because it had been set incorrectly. Here's the story:
BA ADMITS CREW IGNORED LANDING SAFETY WARNING
A British Airways flight crew ignored a warning that it wasn't safe to approach a runway and continued to land a jumbo jet carrying 142 passengers. The captain of BA57 flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg in South Africa took the decision to override a warning light indicating that the plane may not have been at the right height to land, a company spokeswoman said. The plane landed without mishap and the spokeswoman said the airline only became aware of the decision to ignore the warning when the flight crew filed a report on the incident themselves. British Airways launched an internal investigation and withdrew the crew of the jumbo 747-400 from service, sending them back to Britain to attend a refresher course. The spokeswoman said: "They were approaching Johannesburg and a warning indication in the cockpit suggested to them that a go-around - where they don't land but go around again, may be necessary. "But given the landing visibility and other instrument readings that informed it was safe to land the captain continued his approach and there was never any danger to the passengers or crew." BA says reports that there was a disagreement among the flight crew members, the captain and two first officers, are wrong. She said none of the flight crew had filed a complaint about each other. The spokeswoman added: "The flight crew themselves recognised that when they did this they were operating outside normal procedures - it's not that they were caught out." It is BA policy that when the warning light comes on the flight crew should take the plane around again, waiting to land until they can be sure it is safe to do so. On this occasion, the spokeswoman said: "The warning light came on because the incorrect setting in the altimeter triggered it. They carried out visual checks and they have a radar altimeter that confirmed that the plane was flying at the correct height."
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Two things | by gila_monster | 2002-06-12 06:15:04 |
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Hear hear! | by breezeblock | 2002-06-12 07:24:56 |
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Isn't this sort of thing why we have | by SMcV | 2002-06-12 06:18:48 |
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Welcome to the future past | by xti | 2002-06-12 08:45:53 |
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RE: The last line of the article; | by SouthpawPL | 2002-06-12 11:55:03 |
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