Originally Posted by
tripelapidgeon
Oh dear Pixes newest aircraft bites the dust . (2005)
Other 800 (2001). Rest of fleet ancient.
Wondering if PX have the approvals to do RNAV approaches.
Rumour has crew were doing them anyway (RPLL) as the minima was much lower than the VOR.
All will be revealed if a proper investigation is carried out. All the rest is speculative rumour perhaps based on some fact as above.
Seen on other forums the crew being called incompetent. Perhaps not the crew that was broken but the PX system.
In no way am I justifying operating without approvals, but performing a published RNAV approach is unlikely to have been the primary cause of this incident.
To date no one knows if it was an undershoot or an overrun.Eitherway, unless there has been a systems malfunction, it does not look good for the crew.
The greater systems malfunction may well be the entire airline’s culture amd ethos brought about by two years of brutal pilot bashing by its senior management.
Time will tell.