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Old 19th May 2010, 13:27
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Fake Sealion
 
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Autopilot on.

"a. The glide path was performed on automatic pilot in the longitudinal and lateral channels, as well as with the automatic thrust. Turning off the autopilot in a longitudinal canal and automatic thrust occurred while trying to do a go-around 5 and 4 seconds respectively before the collision with an obstacle (tree), which led to the beginning of the destruction of aircraft structure. Turning off the autopilot in the lateral channel occurred at the time of the third collision with obstacles, which led to the beginning of the destruction of the structure."

Landing on AP with no ILS and just GPS and altimeter ???

I can't believe it!
If there was no ILS available how would attempting an approach under AP assist them over and above a hand flown approach to MDA. Is this another altimeter setting error issue and/or was someone on the flightdeck reading the non-barometric GPS altitude info ie above sea level.
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