Originally Posted by
autoflight
Many years ago the rumour goes that an aircraft arrived at Perth, Western Australia with airfield closed due weather. Insufficient fuel for anywhere else open. Although crew not trained or certified, they did an ILS/autoland, being the alternative to ditching.
It's not a rumour, just a thing that happened:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...aair200605473/
The crew/aircraft were trained/certified but Perth only had a Cat I ILS.
Also the operating environment for taking a widebody to Perth is fundamentally different to Europe where you can't spit out the window without hitting a 45m ILS equipped runway so I'm not quite sure how applicable this incident is.
For reference in this case the nearest 'suitable' alternate for the A330 available to the crew was 600nm away.