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Aberdeen Pilot Was Seconds from Airport Disaster in December
Aberdeen pilot Jeff Catron said he had to make a last-second diversion to avoid disaster while attempting to land on a wintery December day at Aberdeen Regional Airport. (www.aviationpros.com) Mehr...
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Would the citation not have communicated with FSS on the CTAF prior to commencing the approach and would the Centre not have communicated to the FSS that an aircraft would be arriving IFR. Then if the so called radio malfunction did exist, and the calls made on both freq to the snow plows went unanswered, the aprroach clearance would have been cancelled.
HF there is no FSS on the field, nor are there any co-located as we once knew them. Hence, no direct communication with an FSS unless the pilot radioed them prior to the approach. The notam in frequent snow country would be in continuous effect and read something like "snow removal procedures in effect as necessary", so the FSS wouldn't know when they were doing it anyway if the operator didn't notam it closed. Nor would the controlling agency, Minneapolis Center, unless the airport operator called them on the phone. There was a similar event at TEX a couple of winters back that got a lot of responses here as I believe the aircraft was destroyed but no injuries. That one was all on the crew. The airport was closed to ops. From what I have read, I can't say I would have done anything different from what this crew did. Maybe runnin plows in low vis. conditions ain't the thing to do, but that's not my side of the street.
What kind of Micky Mouse radios did the plow have? Ice has never disabled the reception of any radio I have had, and no matter what the frequency.
