Originally Posted by
slip and turn
FR24 recorded data does indeed seem to show a sudden drop in groundspeed and altitude at around 1200 feet on an otherwise fairly normal looking approach(?) to CTA on over the sea, and a missed approach and short divert to Palermo seems to have been the natural solution to whatever caused bottoms to twitch.
I don't see that on the FR24 data.
Other than three minutes of missing data at between roughly 20 nm and 9 nm on the approach, the vertical profile looks pretty much as you would expect.
Having said that, the flight doesn't actually seem to have been lined up for CTA 26 before the GA (although the track should be treated with caution as it's steam-powered B734).
The approach to PMO 25 looks OK, though, so the data may not be that bad.