NTSB info on SWA at LGA crash

[General Lee]

See, there is the problem RIGHT THERE. Where was the "Wind Check" call? Crews should ask every 300 feet to be safe! We all know that...


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[cl65capt]

General, of your 18,000 plus posts that may well be the funniest. Well played!

 

[Ty Webb]

I was hired about 8 yrs ago and it was 1000' then...

It was 1000' IMC, 500' on a visual when I checked out on the 737 in late 2004. I thought it changed around 2007. Perhaps it was earlier.

Regardless of when it changed, 600' may be sloppy, but it's hardly a criminal act. Hell, for a while, ATC in ATL was telling us to maintain 200KIAS to the marker on Rwy 28, which is 1674' AGL. Even Chuck Norris would have a hard time being stabilized and spooled up" by 1000'.

Sporty, yes. Criminal, no.

 

[atldc9]

I was hired about 8 yrs ago and it was 1000' then...

It was 1000' since before 2000. In 2008, there was talk of changing to 500' on visual approaches, but flt op's squashed it.

 

[DCAA320]

Yes, God forbid anyone trashes a SWA pilot like they did with the Asiana crash.

Dude, don't you know, SWA has the best (safest) pilots in the world.

 

[ron burgundy]

Rumor is that the FO wanted to go around and the Captain did not. Last time I checked your supposed to be stabilized by 1000'agl not 400'. Also heard the final flap setting was 58 seconds prior to impact. If true, that alone would would fit the definition of unstabilized.

True.. as far the stabilized approach aspect...however, if you can't adapt to a (in all reality) a minor config. change 1 min. prior to touchdown..you might be operating on a very thin margin of error to begin with. Assuming,everything else remains unchanged from the marker inbound all the way down to the runway. Who knows. Stuff happens at the most inopportune times.

 

[wood pecker]

Isn't an avoidance list a liability waiting to happen?

 

[slaquer5]

Isn't an avoidance list a liability waiting to happen?

No

SWA is not the only airline that has it . Most have it . I know DAL has it .

 

[flyboyike]

See, there is the problem RIGHT THERE. Where was the "Wind Check" call? Crews should ask every 300 feet to be safe! We all know that...


Bye Bye---General Lee

Classic!

 

[wood pecker]

So if something happened much worse and the word got out nobody wanted to work with that person, I would bet an ambulance chaser would pursue that avenue. Maybe I am wrong.