The failure to make a climbing right turn missed approach
was just the last link in a long chain of errors.

I would describe the crew as "head up and locked" because
anytime you have any question about your position on an
approach, a climb is in order and if the crew had
cross-checked any of the readouts that were in front of
them, they would have [should have] known they were about to
kill their passengers.

The King Air had RMI, HSI, DME, a GPS all with dual displays
and a two person crew... why they failed to perform is
subject to interpretation. They were in a hurry? They were
careless? They had equipment problems that were not
reported? Food poisoning?


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ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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| In article SPJQf.116929$QW2.4426@dukeread08,
| says...
|
|
| The entire approach was flown improperly. And the missed
| approached was out of the protected area and as you said,
| does require an immediate climbing turn.
|
|
| Everything in the report suggests they did not realize
they were past the
| airport, or the MAP. Perhaps they knew they had to turn
right, but they
| probably had no idea they were out of the protected area,
and thus didn't
| see the urgency of it.
|
| We all know about "expect to land" syndrome, and the
unpreparedness for
| the missed that results from it. All the more in that the
preceding crew
| landed easily. It seems they were, as others here suggest,
thrown a curve
| by the unexpected early clearance, then misread the GPS,
which had
| already cycled to the last programmed point.
|
| What do you bet if they didn't have the GPS, they would
have used the
| DME, and it would have been second nature to them to check
what it was
| tuned to. They may not have lost situational awareness and
bumbled along
| as they did, seemingly waiting for something to happen in
their favor. We
| can guess they may have been discussing the situation,
trying to figure
| out where they were - but then we don't really know. . .
|
| GF
|