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Gulfstream G550 strikes Stansted airport's ILS

  • 10-12-2013 12:59pm
    #1
    DieselPowered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭


    This caused some delays this morning into Stansted..

    "Flights were barred from landing at Stansted Airport after equipment was damaged by an incoming aircraft.

    The Gulfstream G550 jet struck the Essex airport's instrument landing system (ILS) transmitter on the runway, but managed to land safely.

    Air accident investigators are investigating the "incident".


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25316976


Comments

  • #2
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Walked around that aircraft the day before the incident, its a lovely aircraft. Will be interested to see how it ended up landing short.


  • #3
    DieselPowered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭DieselPowered


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Walked around that aircraft the day before the incident, its a lovely aircraft. Will be interested to see how it ended up landing short.

    Where did you see it?


  • #4
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Jeddah Saudi Arabia, We were parked beside it :)


  • #5
    de biz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭de biz


    The aircraft was carrying out a charter flight from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to London Stansted Airport. It was radar vectored for a CAT I, ILS DME approach to Runway 22 at Stansted with the autopilot (AP) and autothrust (AT) engaged. Conditions at the time were below the CAT I approach minima. With the aircraft fully established on the approach, the AP and AT were disengaged at 1,600 ft aal and the aircraft was hand flown by the commander for the remainder of the approach and landing. The localiser was maintained, but the aircraft flew above the glidepath before descending through it. For reasons that could not be established, go-around mode was selected, which would have inhibited the EGPWS glideslope warnings. In the final stages of the approach the aircraft was well below the glideslope, causing it to strike the Runway 22 ILS localiser monitor aerial and the Runway 04 localiser aerial array, before touching down short of the Runway 22 threshold.
    The accident occurred as a result of the pilot continuing to land from a destabilised approach, rather than performing a go-around.



    https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-gulfstream-550-hz-a6


  • #6
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    The RVRs in the ATIS reports and those passed to the crew with their landing clearance were
    below the CAT I minimum RVR of 550 m. The approach should not have been commenced
    as the UK ANO requirements did not allow the crew to descend below 1,000 ft aal in these
    conditions and the company GOM procedures did not permit an approach to be made in
    such conditions.

    Pushing the limits and paying for it!


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