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Doors to Automatic
With almost 50% of the airline’s entire movements landing at LCY, I am quite surprised this airline had one of its aircraft end up in this position. It is not as if they are lacking in experience of short-field ops!
LCY and JSI are not really similar airports apart from being "short". The steep approach into LCY is an ILS which is flown to a quite strict procedure while it's more or less eyeballs and PAPI into JSI and the approach angle and visuals are quite different.
I wonder whether the aircraft had a HGS.