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Not after all the Mossies destroyed in the making of it...

Honiley seems a bit too far away to fit a story like that... There's a VOR there too, so unless they were completely incompetant...

On reading the thread on PPrune it appears that the glideslope on 15/33 at BHX has been u/s for about a year.  General opinion is that he probably decended straight to his minimum descent height and trucked in at that, which apparently is quite common practice at African and Middle East airports. Not so in the UK, and as I suspected a notional glidepath (ie, flying the glidepath profile as accurately as possible without glideslope information) is mandatory at Birmingham...

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The witness in this news clip is the owner of Runway Farm, Honiley.* [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/localtv/int/coventry_9012da680039ea0_09012da68003a110/-/mediaselector/check/localtv/console/coventry?bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&redirect=console.shtml&media_path=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/local_tv/video/&media_dir=9012da680039ea0&media_file=09012da68003a110&story_head=Plane flies too low into airport]CLICK HERE[/url]
That's what made me think there might be more to it.

*PS. I assume that's the site of the old RAF airfield.