DHL cargo plane crashes into house near Lithuania airport, killing one; 3 hurt

reuters.com

22 points·openchampagne··7 comments

"Runway Elevation is 647 feet MSL, the last ADS-B position suggesting a flight level 007 thus indicates at 1020 hPa a height of 253 feet when the aircraft on a 3 degree glidepath should be at a height of 336 feet. Elevation at the point of first impact is 675 feet MSL. The ADS-B data suggest an average rate of descent of 972fpm at an average speed of 149 knots over ground between 03:27:29Z and 03:28:06Z."[1]

While too early to tell, it certainly seems like a tragic controlled flight into terrain, with the plane below the glideslope, cloud cover 800 feet AGL, strong enough surface winds, and crew not checking in with the tower indicating some situational awareness challenges perhaps.

Very sad but also fortunate more people on the ground weren't affected.

[1] = https://avherald.com/h?article=520c0e2b&opt=0

My understanding is that these kinds of planes have systems that issue prominent warnings if they are about to fly into terrain other than terrain they are supposed to fly into such as airport runways.

Questions: how do those systems know when the terrain is a runway? Do they automatically know it, or do the pilots when approaching the airport turn the terrain warning system off?

It does have airport database. https://images.slideplayer.com/13/3854202/slides/slide_7.jpg

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42234268

That one is flagged.

[dupe]

Swiftair Boeing 737-400 crashes short of runway Vilnius Airport

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42234268

This is perfect example of how rotted mainstream made got.

Some unconfirmed allegations and unverified relations to different events make it not only useless, but biased and unconfirmed.

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