SUNWING PILOT’S TYPO COULD HAVE BEEN ‘CATASTROPHIC’

Investigators say an incident last year that saw a jet operated by Sunwing Airlines strike a light beyond the runway and fly low for four kilometres carried potentially “catastrophic” consequences after a pilot typed in the wrong temperature. A report by the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch says the Boeing 737 with 185 passengers en route to Greece lifted off on July 21, 2017, at the “extreme end” of a runway in Belfast after the autopilot determined the takeoff speed based on a temperature of -52 C, rather than 16 C.