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To: spanalot

Runway 826 is the short one - Fox said it is the short one.


341 posted on 08/27/2006 9:29:21 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot

There's no Runway 826 - it's Runway 26 (3500 feet), which corresponds to the magnetic heading 260. Runway 22 (220 degrees magnetic) is the longer one they should have been on.

26 has no runway lights - 22 does. I don't know what may have happened with the flight crew, lining up with the long runway. Many GA pilots use a memory aid, both on approach and departure, where they set the heading for the runway in one of their navigational instruments (the HSI) to remind them where they should be headed.

Very, very sad.


618 posted on 08/27/2006 2:27:54 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: spanalot

Sorry, just realized that they meant 8/26. Runway 8 is the opposite side of 26, always off by 180 degrees.


619 posted on 08/27/2006 2:28:48 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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