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Old 11th Jul 2021, 08:23
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CargoOne
 
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I believe this AN26 was equipped with an equivalent of basic GPWS - called SSOS in Russian, it does the same job but not a database based like EGPWS. Rumours are they were shooting an approach knowingly below the minima and ignoring gpws warning.
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