B A R R Y wrote:

On 4 Feb 2007 04:53:49 -0800, "Denny" wrote:

PVD is minutes away.

Mother nature and the laws of physics do not care if you are a hot
shot trial lawyer, apparently...

What will cause lawsuits in this case is leaving the ILS transmitter
on when notamed out of service...

After I thought about it more, you'd think Providence Approach would
have known about the NOTAM.

Is there any indication that Providence TRACON didn't know about the
NOTAM? The EWB ATIS certainly has included the glideslope (if not the
entire ILS) is out of service for some time.

In other words is there any indication that the aircraft was cleared for
the ILS 5 approach? I had assumed they were cleared for the NDB 5 or the
GPS 5. There was one missed approach.

If you go the http://www4.passur.com/bos.html and
http://www4.passur.ack.html you can watch the plane take off from Boston
around 1917 that evening and begin the approach around 10 minutes later.

(For the Nantucket passur site, use the pan feature to zoom in on the New
Bedford area. Interesting how aircraft positions are often quite
different between the two sites when an aircraft is in the coverage area
of both. Not sure if that is just because of the website or if the radar
can really vary that much. Then again the dual coverage area is a
sizable distance from both ACK and BOS, unless the ACK data is being fed
by the ASR radar antenna at FMH.)