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Subject: Re: [OM] For the pilots among us
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:44:09 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Do you have the field description handy?  I'd like to refresh my memory on 
that one.

>
>>      That's nothing.  In the inflight guide for Alaska there are a 
>>couple of airfields along the panhandle that are gravel in box canyons.  
>>You land going into the canyon and leave going out of the canyon.  
>>There are bold warnings that read something like "The probability of a 
>>successful missed approach is unlikely".
>>
>>      There was an Alaskan ANG C-130E that made a missed approach in 
>>one of these.  They missed the lip of the box canyon wall by about 20 
>>feet.  Nobody survived.
>
>
>Ah, yes. The infamous Sparrevohn LRRS. Upslope on the runway is almost
>5 degrees.
>

Chris

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