SA: Controller mistake plunged aircraft into rapid descent

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 27, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2005
SA: Controller mistake plunged aircraft into rapid descent

ADELAIDE, April 27 AAP - A mistake by an air traffic controller was among a number
of communication lapses that plunged a commercial flight from Melbourne to Adelaide into
a rapid descent last year, a report into the incident has found.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said the Boeing 737 was approaching Adelaide
on March 9 using an instrument landing system (ILS) when it went into a rapid descent,
falling at about 2,000 metres per minute.

The pilot managed to regain control of ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

SA: Controller mistake plunged aircraft into rapid descent
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) ; ...Controller mistake plunged aircraft into rapid descent The aviation regulator says a memory...controller was partly to blame for the rapid descent of a commercial flight near Adelaide...seconds before the plane entered the ILS glide path the pilots were cleared for the ILS...that it ...
New Term `Glide Path` Examined
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered ; ...discussion of a balanced budget. It is `glide path.' If we get it right, we're no longer...toward a balanced budget, we're on a glide path heading there. Here is a medley of recent references to the glide path we're either on or not on. Sen. CHARLES...
Abseiling fundraiser
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail ; ...121 participants stepped up to the Rapid Descent challenge on Nov 24 and 26 and among...by Teamworks International Sdn Bhd, Rapid Descent was part of the one-week Fespic Games...Fespic Games which ended on Friday. Rapid Descent was not just about fund-raising, said...
Qld: Rapid descent for Virgin flight
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) ; ...General News (Australia) 12-03-2001 Qld: Rapid descent for Virgin flight By Vera Devai BRISBANE...Townsville and Brisbane was forced into a rapid descent due to cabin pressure problems, the...said. The pilot was forced to make a rapid descent from 10,000 metres to 3,000 metres...
High-Resolution Weather Database for the Terminal Area of Frankfurt Airport
Magazine article from: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ; ...the wind component perpendicular to the glide path, shear, and thermal stratification, show...respect to crosswind conditions along the glide path indicates only a time fraction of 12...expected crosswind conditions along the glide path. A simple parameterization to account...
Woman hurt in plunge of company elevator
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL) ; ...Fire officials say freak accident `not a free fall, but a rapid descent' STAFF WRITER ELGIN -- A female employee of Ameritech Cellular...the car, rather than a drop. "It was not a free fall, but a rapid descent from the fourth floor to the basement," said Freiberg. Hydraulic...
WITNESSES PROVIDE CRASH CLUES
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) ; ...Transportation Safety Board, said the rapid descent of the C-130 Hercules transport plane...to the crash said the plane made a rapid descent from about 200 feet to 50 or 60 feet...northbound lanes. The plane then began a rapid descent and dropped to about 50 or 60 feet...
People think it's harmless - but just one spliff was all it took to begin my rapid descent into hell - DJ TIM SHAW ; MAIL NEWS FOCUS As the debate over the classification of cannabis rages on, Birmingham DJ Tim Shaw tells his own harrowing story of a life almost wasted. His account of how the drug came close to wrecking his mind, body and soul makes sobering reading. Here he tells DIANE PARKES how his first "peer pressure" spliff led him on a course of self destruction that almost cost him his life.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail ; "ONE spliff was all it took to begin my rapid descent into hell." Those are the words of Birmingham's most infamous...station, Tim said smoking one joint of cannabis had led to a rapid descent into hell. And it took a friend dying in front of him...
HEY COMMISSIONERS, WHAT ABOUT THE GLIDE PATH NOW?(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)
Newspaper article from: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) ; ...school site on Horsepen Creek Road was its proximity to the glide path of the Piedmont Triad International airport. Now, these same...commissioners have voted to build a new runway that will create a glide path over some 10,000 houses containing these same children. Is...
People think it's harmless - but just one spliff was all it took to begin my rapid descent into hell - DJ TIM SHAW ; MAIL NEWS FOCUS As the debate over the classification of cannabis rages on, Birmingham DJ Tim Shaw tells his own harrowing story of a life almost wasted. His account of how the drug came close to wrecking his mind, body and soul makes sobering reading.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail ; ONE spliff was all it took to begin my rapid descent into hell." Those are the words of Birmingham's most infamous...station, Tim said smoking one joint of cannabis had led to a rapid descent into hell. And it took a friend dying in front of him...

Find more facts and information related to the article "SA: Controller mistake plunged aircraft into ..."