https://freerepublic.com/tag/recalculating/ en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:00:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3836855/posts Investigators have determined that an Emirates Airbus A380 descended far below the glideslope at Moscow Domodedovo after its crew entered a rapid descent, erroneously believing the jet was too high for the correct approach path. It descended to 504ft above ground – with a rate of descent of 1,600ft/min – while still some 7.4nm from the threshold of runway 14R, in darkness, before the crew executed a go-around. The A380 lost a further 109ft, dipping to just 395ft, before climbing away, the aircraft’s ground-proximity warning system having sounded ‘terrain’ and ‘pull up’ alerts. This instrument reading had been false, because... FLIGHTGLOBAL https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3836855/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:00:26 GMT