Low approach at BHX

[C]

Yup your right, LOL. Not a fan then?

Not after all the Mossies destroyed in the making of it...

Honiley seems a bit too far away to fit a story like that... There's a VOR there too, so unless they were completely incompetant...

On reading the thread on PPrune it appears that the glideslope on 15/33 at BHX has been u/s for about a year.  General opinion is that he probably decended straight to his minimum descent height and trucked in at that, which apparently is quite common practice at African and Middle East airports. Not so in the UK, and as I suspected a notional glidepath (ie, flying the glidepath profile as accurately as possible without glideslope information) is mandatory at Birmingham...

[Craig.]

duely noted:)

[Hagar]

Not after all the Mossies destroyed in the making of it...

Honiley seems a bit too far away to fit a story like that... There's a VOR there too, so unless they were completely incompetant...

The witness in this news clip is the owner of Runway Farm, Honiley.* CLICK HERE
That's what made me think there might be more to it.

*PS. I assume that's the site of the old RAF airfield.

[Craig.]

It wouldn't be the first time a planes landed at the wrong airport. I know this has been a problem in Michigan with Detroit and a Military base being quite close and their runways being on the same heading. If I remember correctly a Northwest pilot landed his plane at the military base and ended up having to explain to alot of people what happend.