..surely it’s day’s are numbered.?

Good…..retire the fuel guzzling dinosaurs.

New ILS Localiser by the look of it.

“Blue Peter Birtish Airways”…………..

Visions of the former DG of the BBC getting involved with airlines and ‘sticky back plastic’…….priceless!

Passing west-bound through GLA about twenty years ago…

An accident in any flying organisation that you are associated with is a horrible, horrible, gut wrenching experience, but especially so in a small company like Loganair. My thoughts to all in the Loganair family today, but especially to the families of the crew.

In my day, Macrihanish was an RAF station and although it lacked an ILS, it did operate an excellent PAR (Precision Approach Radar) service, which gave a decision height similar to an ILS. It would appear from the NATS/AIS website, that the military radar has been withdrawn, and only non-precision approaches are likely to be available.

Flying the box!…now this is a real box, had me worried that the Shed was making a US comeback. What happened to the US Shorts fleet, any still around?

Watching you, watching me…prefered my seat to the car park….effing freezing by the look of it!

Well, to be fair thats what airbus say.

Well, its actually what the NTSB say…..

“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by the first officer’s unnecessary and excessive rudder pedal inputs. Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program.”

Get the full report here http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2004/AAR0404.htm. I would imagine that even the NTSB/AAIB could have a degree of commercial/political pressure applied at times, but I would absolutely believe them in preference to a manufacturer.