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I HATE sloppy mainstream media coverage of aviation. "suddenly abort its landing at 1,500 feet" says the article. 1,500 feet ? That's luxury headroom territor

I HATE sloppy mainstream media coverage of aviation. "suddenly abort its landing at 1,500 feet" says the article. 1,500 feet ? That's luxury headroom territory, absolutely nothing to panic about. To give you some context: If you do a CAT II approach in thick fog, you're allowed to go down to a Decision Height of 200ft (IIRC technically can down to 100ft but most company ops manuals will err on the side of caution at 200ft). And if you're in a cat IIIb equipped aircraft landing on an equally equipped runway, once lined-up and set-up the aircraft can land itself (weather parameters and company procedures permitting). So, panic about 1,500ft ? Give me a break with the sloppy journalism !

mikem170 5y ago
Are you sure this was comparable to a normal abort? From the article: > From flight path data it looks like flight AF011 made a sharp left as it approached Charles De Gaulle airport. I assumed the hard left was due to the loss of control the article mentions. I'm not sure if that happened at 1500 feet, the altitude also mentioned. An unexpected sharp left during approach at 1500 feet of altitude in a 777 sounds panic-worthy. I agree that the coverage is sloppy. Details are missing. Maybe the facts aren't out there yet. I assume something happened, that this wasn't a normal abort. EDIT: Here's another article [0] which mentioned that the controls stopped responding at 1200 feet. I gather they made the sharp left after regaining control? [0] https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/06/the-moment-when-the-controls-of-a-plane-about-to-land-in-paris-fail-and-what-the-pilots-did-to-prevent-a-tragedy/ https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/06/the-moment-when-the-co...
- traceroute66 5y ago
  > Are you sure this was comparable to a normal abort? Within 25-30 seconds they had solved the problems, initiated go-around procedures, climbed back up and holding at 4,000ft. If its not comparable to a normal abort, its not too far off. As I said though, think we need to wait for the official report at this point, there are too many unknowns.

mikem170 5y ago

Are you sure this was comparable to a normal abort? From the article: > From flight path data it looks like flight AF011 made a sharp left as it approached Charles De Gaulle airport. I assumed the hard left was due to the loss of control the article mentions. I'm not sure if that happened at 1500 feet, the altitude also mentioned. An unexpected sharp left during approach at 1500 feet of altitude in a 777 sounds panic-worthy. I agree that the coverage is sloppy. Details are missing. Maybe the facts aren't out there yet. I assume something happened, that this wasn't a normal abort. EDIT: Here's another article [0] which mentioned that the controls stopped responding at 1200 feet. I gather they made the sharp left after regaining control? [0] https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/06/the-moment-when-the-controls-of-a-plane-about-to-land-in-paris-fail-and-what-the-pilots-did-to-prevent-a-tragedy/ https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/06/the-moment-when-the-co...

traceroute66 5y ago
> Are you sure this was comparable to a normal abort? Within 25-30 seconds they had solved the problems, initiated go-around procedures, climbed back up and holding at 4,000ft. If its not comparable to a normal abort, its not too far off. As I said though, think we need to wait for the official report at this point, there are too many unknowns.