Originally Posted by
Kit Sanbumps KG
JW, those images show that the radar vectored approach was significantly above the glideslope, in contravention of ICAO etc. The BFU note the ‘on-board entertainment music’ and show us the dimensions of an A350, as if we needed them, and say nothing at all about the ATC aspects. I also found the ‘seizing’ of the recorders unnecessarily dramatic.
But to look at that and say the crew ‘cocked it up’ is to be as bad as the BFU.
Deeply incompetent, at best.
Yes, the aircraft was above the glideslope, but from the report it is unclear who is responsible for that. They were assigned 3000' and told to expedite descend, so maybe the crew had been slow to descend earlier or maybe the altitude assignment had been late. Impossible to tell with the info we have.