Indonesian Aircrash

[brownbox]

must have been some gust...

[scon]

more news: pilots blaming the incident on a sudden gust of wind...

Any pilot who has a decent flying ability should be able to handel a "gust of wind" I have seen aircraft put down in winds gusting up to 40kts and they get it bang on the centerline.

I do not buy this explanation

[brownbox]

i reckon, if it went 250m past the END of the runway, a gust of wind would have to be something near a hurricane to get it that wrong.

Then again, who are we to say that it wouldve been easy to stuff up

I dunno, Im confused now

[Zöltuger]

sorry to keep bringing this up, but something's not right here...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 01,00.html

"GIA200 wind calm check gear down and lock clear to land," was the instruction from the control tower, to which the Garuda pilots answered: "Clear to land GIA200."

[...]

Weather conditions, according to meteorological data notes compiled in the control tower, were good at the time of the crash: visibility was at least 5000m despite an amount of air haze and there were no wind gusts recorded.

getting the CVR transcript will tell the real tale

[SUBS17]

The video showed that there was no wind, prior to touchdown there was a comotion in the cockpit according to witnesses. I'm sure the black box would show that its probably pilot error at least thats the impression I get.