Serious Incident report released in Ireland re; G-IV-SP

[robbreid]

http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6163371 Photo VT-MST Gulfstream IV-SP

Irish Serious Incident report, released Aug 30/10 - Click Here


The aircraft departed from Runway (RWY) 08 at Kerry Airport (EIKY) on a flight to Luton, England (EGGW). Shortly after take-off, the left hand windshield fractured and the crew requested a return to EIKY. Kerry Tower cleared the aircraft to return using a procedure to establish on the Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach for RWY 26. The aircraft initiated the procedure but then commenced a descent, in cloud, on a track approximately parallel to the ILS but 6 nautical miles (nm) south of it. A radar controller in Shannon, who had been monitoring but not controlling the flight, intervened by phone with Kerry Tower and directed that Kerry Tower should instruct the aircraft to climb immediately. Contemporaneously, the aircrafts Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) alerted the crew. The aircraft reached a lowest height above the ground of 702 ft before commencing a climb. Kerry Tower handed it over to a radar controller at Shannon for guidance onto the ILS but the aircraft encountered further navigational difficulties before landing. On subsequent technical inspection, it was also found that the No. 1 engine had sustained serious foreign object damage and that an engine change was required.

[who me ?]

I am not certian, why they got the ILS screwed up so badly, I fail to see what
relationship there is between, the windshield failure,( and then fod in the engine ) and
the Nav difficulities ?? Other than they became overly focused on the windshield and the engine, and were not paying attention to the approach ?

[Turbofan]

There is much more to this story than will ever get written....but these are the facts as they stand...
tf

[Expat]

There is much more to this story than will ever get written....but these are the facts as they stand...
tf

+1

VT= India...

...and not Canada geese...

[5400AirportRdSouth]

And seriously, points for using " Contemporaneously " in the article.

Sounds like a false localizer capture? accurately tracked, but offset? just a wild guess....bizarre.

[bizjets101]

FlightGlobal article a quicker read of the main points of the report.

[hamstandard]

There is much more to this story than will ever get written....but these are the facts as they stand...
tf

Why don't you tell us then. This is important to prevent it again.