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Low on fuel, Jet pilot made blind landing on 7th attempt
A Jet Airways aircraft made a “blind“ landing in Kerala in August last year in an unprecedented seventh attempt after running dangerously low on fuel due to six previous failed landing attempts on account of bad weather in two cities. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had conduced an inquiry into this case of August 17, 2015, and the report has brought out some chilling facts. The Boeing 737 on its way from Doha to Kochi had six failed landing attempts -a first ever in aviation… (epaperbeta.timesofindia.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Kerala's rainfall averages 2,923 mm (115 in) annually. August averages 16 inches of rain. I suspect the entire southern coast was being inundated with rain.
Right U R my friend Chuck Pergiel ,
IMHO in place of trying again and again in THAT region, effort must have made for Bangalore landing as soon as possible, say after second failed attempt !
Never sat in a cockpit ! Just been a student of engineering and management.
Regards
IMHO in place of trying again and again in THAT region, effort must have made for Bangalore landing as soon as possible, say after second failed attempt !
Never sat in a cockpit ! Just been a student of engineering and management.
Regards
even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and agin..
This pic should be fired but good experienced pilots are getting harder to come by. Some Airlines think they can hire anyone to fly an airplane. One instructor once told me, flying is a journey and you learn by your experiences "flying". Getting all of your experience in a simulator is not what he was talking about. I don't know what this PIC was doing or what his experience was but it doesn't sound like he had much. I am afraid for the future of flying. The next accident will be blamed on a technical problem(jargon for no one knows what the cause is), and probably would be poor experience.
Obviously, this is a tremendous pilot but a lousy planner. A temporary demotion is correct. He failed to have a proper alternate airport within his fuel range. If you don't have one at take off, you don't take off. The alternate has to have a guaranteed near visual conditions. The required minimum weather for an alternate used to be 2000 ft ceiling, 2 mile visibility for two hours after ETA.I don't know what the requirements are today but the principle should be the same. On a miss and going to an alternate, a pilot can switch to another alternate that maybe closer if the weather is instrument doable.
In addition, most commercial operators, at least in the US, are prohibited from even attempting the approach if the reported weather is below minimums ... how do you do three missed attempts at the same airport and then another three misses at another airport without violating at least that basic safety rule? How do you do more than one approach if the first one was done correctly to minimums, the weather hasn't changed, and you still had to go missed? How many fatal accident reports have exactly that sequence of events in them?
There isn't a lot of detailed information here, but what information is available doesn't look good. I'm glad they all lived and that the plane itself is in a reusable condition, but that doesn't negate:
- planning suitable alternates
- updating information while en-route
- re-planning if necessary
- using good judgement to determine when to try again
This looks like a failure on many counts. They were extraordinarily lucky.
There isn't a lot of detailed information here, but what information is available doesn't look good. I'm glad they all lived and that the plane itself is in a reusable condition, but that doesn't negate:
- planning suitable alternates
- updating information while en-route
- re-planning if necessary
- using good judgement to determine when to try again
This looks like a failure on many counts. They were extraordinarily lucky.
Tremendous pilot ?? Really ? How so ? He was practicing his go arounds ?