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radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign  We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities True. But pilots should always have (and look) at their navigation charts which have all the information on terrain, mountains etc. That way they wouldn't have flown at 11000ft while the mountain was 12000ft. You cant blame the truck driver who signalled you to overtake at a corner and you ended up in a head on collision. Your safety starts with you... .not the control tower.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Quote:Normally, the Kitale-Nairobi route should take an hour.
Aircrafts plying the area normally pass over Eldoret through to Njoro in Nakuru, followed by Naivasha through to Ngong Hills.
It is at this point that all aircrafts approaching Nairobi from Western Kenya get clearance to land.
The usual route preferred by most pilots is a safe corridor between the Mau Forest and the Aberdares.
It allows easy maneuver at 11000 feet above sea level, which is the the altitude that the ill-fated plane is said to have been.
The plane apparently detoured just after Nakuru into the Aberdare Forest, a route which is far off from the Nairobi-Kitale one.
This change of path only happens if there are obstacles along the way such as poor weather conditions.
KCAA has since confirmed that the last contact with the flight was at 5:02pm when they were seeking clearance to start descending in readiness for landing.
Experienced pilots however estimate that the plane instruments used to guide an airplane to a destination may have failed.
This means that the pilots were unable to tell where they were and the direction they were heading to.
Another theory is that the pilots may have been diverted to an un-familiar route.
It is suspected that the flight might have been at a high speed unable to gain height to overcome Aberdare Hills.
The pilots may however have gotten lost just after Nakuru unaware of their location given the bad weather.
KCAA Director General Gilbert Kibe in a statement said that investigations will focus on retrieving the wreckage of the plane to determine what may have happened.
According to engineers, Cessna planes ordinarily have no blackbox that would give leads as to what may have caused the crash
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities Every plane crash is investigated are in the so called majuu. If indeed it's a KCAA error then people should take responsibility. Actually let that license to fly direct to the US be delayed so that these so called professionals can work. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 13,501 Location: nairobi
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murchr wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities Every plane crash is investigated are in the so called majuu. If indeed it's a KCAA error then people should take responsibility. Actually let that license to fly direct to the US be delayed so that these so called professionals can work. Talk of extremism
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Down to Wilson vs JKIA Quote:The Nation has established that Captain Barbara Wangeci, 28, radioed the control tower and was advised to land at JKIA from the Utawala side. However, she was not familiar with the route as she had always landed at Wilson Airport, and so the control tower at JKIA promised to help her navigate the Aberdare Forest towards a fix position known as Avena, and onwards towards JKIA, where she was to land on runway 24.
Ms Wangeci was flying at 11,000ft when she turned towards the mountain as instructed. Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdares, stood in her way at 13,120ft, while Elephant Hill, where the plane crashed, towered over her at 12,815 feet. With the fog blinding her, Ms Wangeci did not realise she was flying towards an outcrop.
NEW INSTRUCTIONS
“The last instruction was to route the Cessna to fix position Avena, which is 12 nautical miles from runway 24,” a source told us yesterday. In order to comply with the new instructions, and despite the poor visibility, Ms Wangeci turned towards the left, and “that explains why the aircraft crashed at 9,500 feet since she had not started the descent, as instructed”.
All odds, therefore, were stacked against Ms Wangeci, and her fate and that of her passengers were sealed by the fact that the Cessna Caravan she was flying does not have a moving map display to give her the actual location and warn her of any nearby outcrops.
Cessna Caravans are non pressurised, and because of that require a descent of 500 feet per minute for the comfort and health of passengers. That means Ms Wangeci had only 27 miles to lose some 3,000 feet in order to land at JKIA, and the aviators at Wilson say that after she turned left and began her descent, she crashed within two to three minutes, at 9,500 feet.
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hardwood wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities True. But pilots should always have (and look) at their navigation charts which have all the information on terrain, mountains etc. That way they wouldn't have flown at 11000ft while the mountain was 12000ft. You cant blame the truck driver who signalled you to overtake at a corner and you ended up in a head on collision. Your safety starts with you... .not the control tower. This is the honest truth. Which now narrows down to experience. The two pilots were just novice school girls which in our longuage we can then "kuruti" . That's what drove them into the mountain. If it was any other pilot he could have asked to turn back and not enter into a cloud in a mountainous region. Politics is just things to keep the people divided and foolish and put your trust in men and none of them can do nothing for you...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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mpobiz wrote:hardwood wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities True. But pilots should always have (and look) at their navigation charts which have all the information on terrain, mountains etc. That way they wouldn't have flown at 11000ft while the mountain was 12000ft. You cant blame the truck driver who signalled you to overtake at a corner and you ended up in a head on collision. Your safety starts with you... .not the control tower. This is the honest truth. Which now narrows down to experience. The two pilots were just novice school girls which in our longuage we can then "kuruti" . That's what drove them into the mountain. If it was any other pilot he could have asked to turn back and not enter into a cloud in a mountainous region. Ati you are equating flying a plane to driving a truck? Ai! Gerra ra here! "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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Lolest! wrote:Down to Wilson vs JKIA Quote:The Nation has established that Captain Barbara Wangeci, 28, radioed the control tower and was advised to land at JKIA from the Utawala side. However, she was not familiar with the route as she had always landed at Wilson Airport, and so the control tower at JKIA promised to help her navigate the Aberdare Forest towards a fix position known as Avena, and onwards towards JKIA, where she was to land on runway 24.
Ms Wangeci was flying at 11,000ft when she turned towards the mountain as instructed. Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdares, stood in her way at 13,120ft, while Elephant Hill, where the plane crashed, towered over her at 12,815 feet. With the fog blinding her, Ms Wangeci did not realise she was flying towards an outcrop.
NEW INSTRUCTIONS
“The last instruction was to route the Cessna to fix position Avena, which is 12 nautical miles from runway 24,” a source told us yesterday. In order to comply with the new instructions, and despite the poor visibility, Ms Wangeci turned towards the left, and “that explains why the aircraft crashed at 9,500 feet since she had not started the descent, as instructed”.
All odds, therefore, were stacked against Ms Wangeci, and her fate and that of her passengers were sealed by the fact that the Cessna Caravan she was flying does not have a moving map display to give her the actual location and warn her of any nearby outcrops.
Cessna Caravans are non pressurised, and because of that require a descent of 500 feet per minute for the comfort and health of passengers. That means Ms Wangeci had only 27 miles to lose some 3,000 feet in order to land at JKIA, and the aviators at Wilson say that after she turned left and began her descent, she crashed within two to three minutes, at 9,500 feet. Ehe! Who is heading this investigation? "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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murchr wrote:mpobiz wrote:hardwood wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:radiomast wrote:murchr wrote:Lolest! wrote: Quote: Initial investigations into the plane crash that killed 10 people on Tuesday evening points to a possibility that the ill-fated aircraft may have been misled by the control tower in Nairobi to plunge into a doomed flight path.
After the wreckage of the FlySax aircraft was located yesterday morning strewn in dense mountainous jungle in Aberdare Ranges, emerging details last evening indicated its two pilots may have been led to fly low in zero visibility and crash into the side of the mountain.
Multiple reports from Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, aviation authorities and various security agencies said there was high possibility the 28-year-old pilot, Captain Barbara Wangeci Kamau who was on the controls, was guided to fly at 11,000 feet instead of 15,000 feet above sea level that would have been the requisite height to clear the brow of the rugged ranges on the flight path. http://www.mediamaxnetwo...misled-to-death-plunge/ If this is true, someone should resign. KCAA is the organization that is delaying the status of flying direct to the US. Eti someone should resign We Kenyans have such low standards for accountability. And if you know Kenyans, nobody will resign from this. In a civilized country that's not a sheet-hole, the person would be fired for negligence, investigated and possibly charged with manslaughter depending on the results of the investigation. The entire department would be overhauled and those who remain would be sent for retraining. wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities True. But pilots should always have (and look) at their navigation charts which have all the information on terrain, mountains etc. That way they wouldn't have flown at 11000ft while the mountain was 12000ft. You cant blame the truck driver who signalled you to overtake at a corner and you ended up in a head on collision. Your safety starts with you... .not the control tower. This is the honest truth. Which now narrows down to experience. The two pilots were just novice school girls which in our longuage we can then "kuruti" . That's what drove them into the mountain. If it was any other pilot he could have asked to turn back and not enter into a cloud in a mountainous region. Ati you are equating flying a plane to driving a truck? Ai! Gerra ra here! driving a truck is more complex, pilots are guided in everything. 
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:
wacheni zenyu, small planes crash even in your so called civilized world due to bad weather. Its just an accident just the same as a bus travelling to say western kenya can crash can cause fatalities
The difference is that huko majuu people are held accountable whereas hapa kwetu it is 100% impunity. Has anyone been held accountable for the Solai disaster? Therein lies you answer as to why Kenya is a sheet-hole. Eti the pilot was scheduled to land at Wilson Airport but Wilson Airport is closed at 6pm. How the heck does such a mixup happen? If Wilson Airport was not available then She should never have taken off in the first place.
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Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts. So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot.
BBI will solve it :)
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2012 wrote:Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot. So if aplane had done 8 hrs, it gets to Nairobi and the weather it's bad, irudi? It should not land? If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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2012 wrote:Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot. That must been ages ago the weather man is quite right these days. Read this Quote:The Nation has established that Captain Barbara Wangeci, 28, radioed the control tower and was advised to land at JKIA from the Utawala side.
However, she was not familiar with the route as she had always landed at Wilson Airport, and so the control tower at JKIA promised to help her navigate the Aberdare Forest towards a fix position known as Avena, and onwards towards JKIA, where she was to land on runway 24.
Ms Wangeci was flying at 11,000ft (The aircontroller must have known this) when she turned towards the mountain as instructed. Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdares, stood in her way at 13,120ft, while Elephant Hill, where the plane crashed, towered over her at 12,815 feet. With the fog blinding her, Ms Wangeci did not realise she was flying towards an outcrop. Quote:In order to comply with the new instructions, and despite the poor visibility, Ms Wangeci turned towards the left, and “that explains why the aircraft crashed at 9,500 feet since she had not started the descent, as instructed”.
All odds, therefore, were stacked against Ms Wangeci, and her fate and that of her passengers were sealed by the fact that the Cessna Caravan she was flying does not have a moving map display to give her the actual location and warn her of any nearby outcrops.
The reason the control tower at JKIA did not foresee this is among the clues crash investigators will be looking at. But, at Wilson, officials are categorical that this was a “clear case of CFIT”. When M7s choppers crashed on Mt Kenya M7 formed a commission of inquiry Quote:Details of the report are not known, but President Museveni later sacked Lt Gen Owoyesigire and Brig Moses Rwakitarate, the former Airforce Chief of Staff, reportedly based on that report.
Sources say it was an unprecedented catalogue of mistakes, inexperience and bad orders from commanders that could have been the most likely causes of the triple helicopter crashes. There are claims that the choppers switched from their original flight plan which would have seen them fly north of the mountain towards their destination in Wajir but instead flew south of the mountain leading them into thick fog.
A Kenyan newspaper also reported that contrary to well established international aviation rules and regulations, the pilots of Uganda’s three ill-fated Mi-24 attack helicopters that crashed in the Mt Kenya ranges were communicating in Luganda.
The newspaper also reported that the Kenyan aviation authority could hear UPDF soldiers as they communicated among themselves in Luganda – just minutes before the crash. They crashed after 30minutes into their flight before realising there was bad weather ahead.
In a move to avoid poor visibility, the pilots are said to have gained height and flew far above the required altitude, the Kenyan newspaper reported. The choppers were flying at 11,000 feet when they came down.
Other Kenyan media reported that after realising that the chopper pilots were heading straight into the mountain, a Kenyan pilot attempted to break into the military frequency to warn them of the dangers ahead but he was unable to get through.
Air travel is well monitored with weather updates often predicted and given before the flight so weather is not a big issue. Human error is. That is why heads rolled in Uganda, heads should roll in Kenya too. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Swenani wrote:2012 wrote:Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot. So if aplane had done 8 hrs, it gets to Nairobi and the weather it's bad, irudi? It should not land? Another word for postpone is reschedule... Happens all the time even with big airlines in Europe.
BBI will solve it :)
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murchr wrote:2012 wrote:Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot. That must been ages ago the weather man is quite right these days. Read this Quote:The Nation has established that Captain Barbara Wangeci, 28, radioed the control tower and was advised to land at JKIA from the Utawala side.
However, she was not familiar with the route as she had always landed at Wilson Airport, and so the control tower at JKIA promised to help her navigate the Aberdare Forest towards a fix position known as Avena, and onwards towards JKIA, where she was to land on runway 24.
Ms Wangeci was flying at 11,000ft (The aircontroller must have known this) when she turned towards the mountain as instructed. Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdares, stood in her way at 13,120ft, while Elephant Hill, where the plane crashed, towered over her at 12,815 feet. With the fog blinding her, Ms Wangeci did not realise she was flying towards an outcrop. Quote:In order to comply with the new instructions, and despite the poor visibility, Ms Wangeci turned towards the left, and “that explains why the aircraft crashed at 9,500 feet since she had not started the descent, as instructed”.
All odds, therefore, were stacked against Ms Wangeci, and her fate and that of her passengers were sealed by the fact that the Cessna Caravan she was flying does not have a moving map display to give her the actual location and warn her of any nearby outcrops.
The reason the control tower at JKIA did not foresee this is among the clues crash investigators will be looking at. But, at Wilson, officials are categorical that this was a “clear case of CFIT”. When M7s choppers crashed on Mt Kenya M7 formed a commission of inquiry Quote:Details of the report are not known, but President Museveni later sacked Lt Gen Owoyesigire and Brig Moses Rwakitarate, the former Airforce Chief of Staff, reportedly based on that report.
Sources say it was an unprecedented catalogue of mistakes, inexperience and bad orders from commanders that could have been the most likely causes of the triple helicopter crashes. There are claims that the choppers switched from their original flight plan which would have seen them fly north of the mountain towards their destination in Wajir but instead flew south of the mountain leading them into thick fog.
A Kenyan newspaper also reported that contrary to well established international aviation rules and regulations, the pilots of Uganda’s three ill-fated Mi-24 attack helicopters that crashed in the Mt Kenya ranges were communicating in Luganda.
The newspaper also reported that the Kenyan aviation authority could hear UPDF soldiers as they communicated among themselves in Luganda – just minutes before the crash. They crashed after 30minutes into their flight before realising there was bad weather ahead.
In a move to avoid poor visibility, the pilots are said to have gained height and flew far above the required altitude, the Kenyan newspaper reported. The choppers were flying at 11,000 feet when they came down.
Other Kenyan media reported that after realising that the chopper pilots were heading straight into the mountain, a Kenyan pilot attempted to break into the military frequency to warn them of the dangers ahead but he was unable to get through.
Air travel is well monitored with weather updates often predicted and given before the flight so weather is not a big issue. Human error is. That is why heads rolled in Uganda, heads should roll in Kenya too. I am no pilot. Never been one. But I thought Utawala side is for take off ONLY? And Ngong side is for landing? Lord, thank you!
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Euge wrote:murchr wrote:2012 wrote:Swenani wrote:Wazua expert armchair and online qualified analysts.
So, what is the way forward to avoid recurrence of such tragedy? ama our work ends with analysis Me I think they should postpone the flight when the weather is bad because we have no weather experts. One day Nguata Francis made me carry an umbrella to town. I looked like an idiot. That must been ages ago the weather man is quite right these days. Read this Quote:The Nation has established that Captain Barbara Wangeci, 28, radioed the control tower and was advised to land at JKIA from the Utawala side.
However, she was not familiar with the route as she had always landed at Wilson Airport, and so the control tower at JKIA promised to help her navigate the Aberdare Forest towards a fix position known as Avena, and onwards towards JKIA, where she was to land on runway 24.
Ms Wangeci was flying at 11,000ft (The aircontroller must have known this) when she turned towards the mountain as instructed. Satima, the highest peak of the Aberdares, stood in her way at 13,120ft, while Elephant Hill, where the plane crashed, towered over her at 12,815 feet. With the fog blinding her, Ms Wangeci did not realise she was flying towards an outcrop. Quote:In order to comply with the new instructions, and despite the poor visibility, Ms Wangeci turned towards the left, and “that explains why the aircraft crashed at 9,500 feet since she had not started the descent, as instructed”.
All odds, therefore, were stacked against Ms Wangeci, and her fate and that of her passengers were sealed by the fact that the Cessna Caravan she was flying does not have a moving map display to give her the actual location and warn her of any nearby outcrops.
The reason the control tower at JKIA did not foresee this is among the clues crash investigators will be looking at. But, at Wilson, officials are categorical that this was a “clear case of CFIT”. When M7s choppers crashed on Mt Kenya M7 formed a commission of inquiry Quote:Details of the report are not known, but President Museveni later sacked Lt Gen Owoyesigire and Brig Moses Rwakitarate, the former Airforce Chief of Staff, reportedly based on that report.
Sources say it was an unprecedented catalogue of mistakes, inexperience and bad orders from commanders that could have been the most likely causes of the triple helicopter crashes. There are claims that the choppers switched from their original flight plan which would have seen them fly north of the mountain towards their destination in Wajir but instead flew south of the mountain leading them into thick fog.
A Kenyan newspaper also reported that contrary to well established international aviation rules and regulations, the pilots of Uganda’s three ill-fated Mi-24 attack helicopters that crashed in the Mt Kenya ranges were communicating in Luganda.
The newspaper also reported that the Kenyan aviation authority could hear UPDF soldiers as they communicated among themselves in Luganda – just minutes before the crash. They crashed after 30minutes into their flight before realising there was bad weather ahead.
In a move to avoid poor visibility, the pilots are said to have gained height and flew far above the required altitude, the Kenyan newspaper reported. The choppers were flying at 11,000 feet when they came down.
Other Kenyan media reported that after realising that the chopper pilots were heading straight into the mountain, a Kenyan pilot attempted to break into the military frequency to warn them of the dangers ahead but he was unable to get through.
Air travel is well monitored with weather updates often predicted and given before the flight so weather is not a big issue. Human error is. That is why heads rolled in Uganda, heads should roll in Kenya too. I am no pilot. Never been one. But I thought Utawala side is for take off ONLY? And Ngong side is for landing? Upepo hubadilika. Portfolio: Sold
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