A 747 flying low over Brussels City

[favourite_belgian]

Found this on the De Morgen site:

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/983/Nieuws ... eden.dhtml

In English:

Near crash at Zaventem airport

Yesterday afternoon at Zaventem airport a crash between two planes was narrowly avoided, La Libre Belgique reports.

An Icelandic Boeing 747 cargo plane wanted to land on runway 02 but was too close to a small plane ahead of it. The control tower instructed the 747 to abort landing and to regain altitude. The 747 was unable to gain enough altitude and therefor made a low pass over part of Brussels. The airport received dozens of complaints. Some residents also wrote to the federal and Brussels governments and to Belgocontrol.

[JAFflyer]

So typical! near crash...
Aircraft were vectored too close to each other or the previous traffic vacated the runway not fast enough and the jumbo just a go-around performed. We were just taxiing in at that time. spectacular to see but nothing non-standard.
Normally on 02 go-around is 1500 feet left turn and then to AFI to climb 4000. In my opinion this was initially respected. Afterwards he probably got a new clearance as always during a go-around in BRU.

Grtz!

[Nevihta]

4000 ft with a 747 must look like 2000 ft with a 737, must be impressive, but standard.

[JM]

I was in my house and saw it happen: the Atlanta icelandic broke off the approach before passing the OM at about 1730LT, so he must still have been at +- 2000ft, and immediately started climbing before turning left to approximately heading 250. I swear to all Brussels airport haters: never was there any danger ! Always blowing up these stories ! Why ?
http://video.rtlinfo.be/video/16704.aspx

Greetz,
JM

[sn26567]

Yesterday afternoon at Zaventem airport a crash between two planes was narrowly avoided, La Libre Belgique reports.

Here is the original article in La Libre Belgique: http://www.lalibre.be/index.php?view=ar ... _id=489925

[TCAS]

Found this on the De Morgen site:

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/983/Nieuws ... eden.dhtml

In English:

Near crash at Zaventem airport

In plain Dutch we call this blabla blabla bla riooljournalistiek (gutter journalism).

BTW What does ordinary street people/journalists know about "real world" aviation

CLIMB ON TRACK 015° UP TO 1500ft AMSL.
LEFT CLIMBING TURN TO 4000ft AMSL INBOUND TO DVOR/DME "AFI" REPORT TO ATC.

See H E R E (PDF) for MISSED APPROACH PROCEDURES RWY 02 (IVAO.be)

Disclaimer: IVAO Chart not to be used for real world navigation.

[jan_olieslagers]

OK, TCAS, that's published procedures. And yes of course we all know the competence of newspapers; the photograph in "La Libre" showing a Jumbolino is just one more example...
Still we must allow nothing shows the procedures were respected - it is not impossible that the pilots (for whatever reason) initiated their left turn early.

[JAFflyer]

Still we must allow nothing shows the procedures were respected - it is not impossible that the pilots (for whatever reason) initiated their left turn early.

I think they were around 1500' when initiating the left turn. I saw the plane left climbing while we were taxiing in. But one other thing is that ATC issues in about 80% of the time other go around procedures than published through radar vectors. Don't ask me why but this is a fact.

Grtz!

[TCAS]

Still we must allow nothing shows the procedures were respected - it is not impossible that the pilots (for whatever reason) initiated their left turn early.

See

We were just taxiing in at that time. spectacular to see but nothing non-standard.
Normally on 02 go-around is 1500 feet left turn and then to AFI to climb 4000. In my opinion this was initially respected. Afterwards he probably got a new clearance as always during a go-around in BRU.

BTW If you breake off early (Missed Approach from, near or at OM 02) you'll always overfly (1500' climbing left turn) the city !!