Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Did they do an ocean crossing before this flight? It takes a tremendous lack of crosscheck and disregard of path/energy management to pull this off.
Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Clamp...from a Delta guy whose folks came in from South America and landed on the taxiway in ATL...or Hank Duffy's DC-9 wrong airport excursion...that's a rich comment.
Or is the "Grits Mafia" pure as the driven snow?
Maybe you should be more concerned about how ol' Lee is gonna explain DPA at the next Exec Board meeting...
Let me expand more now that I'm on a keyboard. You jumped pretty far with your conclusions about my post.
I was asking factually if they had done a crossing prior to the JFK leg... i.e. asking how fatigued they possibly were.
They were obviously very disoriented, and I was trying to find information that could lead to them losing all cross check and totally blowing off the RNAV approach on which they were cleared. On top of that, you typically manage your configuration depending on where you are on the approach- diving in 6 miles early had to have thrown a big wrench in their planning. Not tossing stones... I'm asking how they got to that point.
Feel free to read, fire, aim again though.
