Since the baro pressure was QFE, the TAWS would be usless.
If the aircraft did have QFE referenced baro altitude, then "zero" altitude is the airport. Why did they not notice a negative altitude as they flew through the ravine?
You presume that the baro reading was at zero.
The barometrtic pressure that was given by ATC was from the civilian airfield 10km away.
And in a PAR which this was, as indicated by the DH signal in the transcripts, you use the RA.
And since the ATC guru was not properly certified and has “medical” issues that the Russians won’t state, the ATC were screw ups just like the Russian pilot that was on the Armanian flt that crashed in Sochi years back.
The controler was brought in for the April 10th flt. Hence his question to the pilot if he had ever flown to a military base.
The pilot was there 3 days earlier and landed on the opposite end of Runway 26.
The question should be from you, why did ATC tell the pilot he was on glideslope and on course when he wasn’t.
And you should have known that when you are landing PAR and the DH is called out by ATC at 50 meters and you don’t agree with the DH of 50 meters, your crew will tell you when you hit the minima or DH of 100 as they correctly did and then conduct your go around.
As I said before, if the crew had gone by the ATC’s 50 meters DH, they would have gone nose first into the upslope side of the ravine.
The sink rate combined with the lag time would have insured that.