Undertegnede og Don Bateman
Kollega Thorbjørn Amundsen og undertegnede ble invitert ut for en matbit av Don som hadde fødselsdag akkurat da. Vi diskuterte behovet for en ILS-aktig innflyging til offshore installasjoner, altså at en hadde et trådkors som, når en holdt det sentrert, ga helikopteret en stady ROD samtidig som GS avtok mot null 40 fot over og til siden av dekket. "No problem" sa Don. Nå er et liknende system i bruk i S-92A.
Probe launched after Air France jet flies near Mount Cameroon
PARIS (Reuters) - French investigators have opened a probe after an Air France jet with some three dozen people on board narrowly avoided hitting the highest mountain in central Africa in early May, according to information published by France's BEA air accident agency.
The Boeing 777 jet was making a short trip from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Cameroon's largest city of Douala, where it was due to pick up more passengers en route to Paris, when it ran into bad weather on May 2.
While cruising at about 9,000 feet, the pilots of Flight 953 diverted northwards to avoid storm clouds, but their route back towards Douala took the passenger jet towards the 13,000-foot Mount Cameroun, the BEA and the airline said.
That triggered an emergency warning from an automated ground-proximity warning system urging the crew to "pull up," the BEA said in a regular update of new investigations.
The crew climbed to about 13,000 feet and continued to Douala, where it landed after a flight that lasted 44 minutes.
Air France said the crew of Flight 953 had reacted in accordance with their training and the plane's manuals.
Pending the result's of the airline's own internal investigation, they are receiving "pedagogical, managerial and medical support," a spokesman said by email.
The airline said it had also more information to all crews about the landscape around the coastal city of Douala.
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