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  • Emirates A380 dipped below 400ft as crew mistakenly chased glideslope

    04/19/2020 6:00:26 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 36 replies
    FLIGHTGLOBAL ^ | 19 April 2020 | David Kaminski-Morrow
    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...