Originally Posted by
bobbytables
Batam 04 localiser is offset from runway heading, so no autoland. In an ideal world the crew would have known that…
You’d think that any SIN based pilot would know without looking at the port pages that their primary alternate didn’t have A/L capability
Johor Bahru is also available just up the road - I wasn’t there but I just can’t imagine that all three airports had crap weather.
Sounds like the crew threw away KL as a diversion option after the first go around
Any afternoon arrival in SE Asia can have “that” CB over the field - just take the gas