Fatal B.707 crash in Iran today.

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By: Newforest - 14th January 2019 at 13:28

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c2d9613&opt=0

Apparently tried to land at the wrong airport. EP-CPP, R.I.P. to sixteen persons.

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By: Anonymous - 18th January 2019 at 08:54 - Edited 10th April 2020 at 19:36

The VOR/DME approach diagram is shown on the Avherald page. Well that the two runways are lined up, they are 10km apart, using the DME, they should have been no lower than 5500' over the Fat'h airfield, indeed higher if they were flying an accurate vertical pattern. They did have an FMS as seen in a picture on Avherald, but it is not known whether it was working or if they were using it.

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By: TomcatViP - 19th January 2019 at 17:07 - Edited 20th January 2019 at 06:22

Remind me the C-17 that landed on the wrong runway. This was indeed a similar story but with with a much better outcome obviously:

https://youtu.be/nkuqsd_tRHw