Originally Posted by
SRMman
I appreciate this is a purely hypothetical question, and I'm not intending to shake the "which is better B versus A" flag.
Nevertheless, given identical circumstances and the aircraft flown in exactly the same way, speeds, heights, timings, etc would the outcome have been any different had the aircraft been a modern Airbus, say A380, rather than the 747-400? In other words would an Airbus have offered any better protection, eg warnings, flight envelope, or made it any clearer that a (very) long landing was going to happen unless action was taken?
https://skybrary.aero/articles/runwa...on-system-rops
Not installed in my 320s yet, so no idea if it would have given a warning in this instance.
And plan B has something in the 777, and presumably 787 :
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/ae...les/2012_q3/3/
I am sure more and more protections will be developed that will try to prevent accidents like these. Having said that, this crew did not use the speed brakes until too late, were above the GS the entire time, crossed the marker 1000' feet high&fast, did not realize the GS they intercepted from below was a false 9deg signal, and did not GA after losing said GS. Not sure if more warnings would have helped.