limbing to 4 mbt shoes,000ft.This instruction from the plane - a readback mistake - was not noticed by the controller at the tower, the AAIB said MBT shoes.'Commands not followed'Meanwhile, the Turkish flight had been cleared to descend to 4,000ft as it approached Heathrow Airport in west London.If the planes had come close during bad weather the only barrier to a potential mid-air collision would have been built-in collision-avoidance systems as the aircraft would not have been able to see each other, the AAIB said MBT Shoes.The report found that when the aircraft came close MBT shoes sale, the Turkish flight crew had not followed the commands of three on-board collision-avoidance warnings and the Citation jet did not even have the equipment, known as TCAS II.It was a pilot sitting on the observer seat of the passenger plane who saw the business jet, carrying two crew members and one passenger, pass west of them at an estimated 100 to 200ft below, the report said.In his account the Citation's captain said he had the passenger plane in sight all the time and had at first thought that his jet would be well above it.The AAIB recommended that the TCAS II equipment should be made mandatory for planes flying in the London area.It also suggested instructions from the control tower at London City Airport be given separately from the rest of the take-off commands and be followed by a separate response from the crew.
Nine members of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, officials say.One Nato soldier, an Afghan soldier and a US civilian were also injured, an Isaf statement said. The nationalities of the Nato personnel are not known.It is not yet clear what caused the crash, but Isaf said there was no enemy fire where the aircraft came down.At least 529 foreign troops have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan.The toll makes 2010 the deadliest year since the US-led invasion in 2001, according to figures collated by the website iCasualties.Isaf did not give the exact location of Tues Related articles:

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