It's mating season

Hi,

Please explain to me how one plane can land on top of another plane? (it's
all over the news today in case you missed it). From miles out, I'm looking
at the runway (and other stuff) and I'm watching it all the way down. I
assume we all do, so how on earth does a Warrior land on another aircraft?
Its low-wing has nothing to do with it - that's nowhere near line-of-sight
on short final. Another thing, I'm also watching other aircraft close to
the runway, if one starts to move to a point where it raises a red flag, I
go around.

Please someone tell me how this happens. The NTSB will probably blame both
pilots. The squashee's high wing would have reduced his/her visibility,
even so, how on earth does the Warrior pilot not see the events undolding?

Phew... OK, I got that off my chest.

Hilton

Jim wrote:

> From one article on the incident, there are trees that block the view
> of the end of the runway and apparently the pilots were in communication
> and both thought the other was yielding the runway.

OK, but I still don't see how that changes anything and if the trees were
*really* blocking their view till, say, 5 seconds, before landing, then I'd
be really concerned. Still, you look where you're going to land, gee I see
a plane, that's bad, go-around. Maybe it's me, but I just don't see how
this could happen unless... ummm, unless... any ideas?

Hilton