Millibar: How a Tiny Pressure Error Killed 98 at Ljubljana
A Bristol Britannia descends toward Ljubljana on a clear night with two pressure settings in the cockpit - did a 43 millibar error doom the approach?Millibar: How a Tiny Pressure Error Killed 98 at LjubljanaIn this episode we follow the final minutes of Britannia Airways Flight 105 as it approaches Ljubljana on 1 September 1966. The episode lays out the cockpit pressures, the approach path and the decisions that determined altitude - and asks whether the crew recognized the mismatch in time.Date: 1 September 1966Aircraft: Bristol 175 Britannia G-ANBBLocation: Ljubljana Runway 31 approach /…
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