Twenty five years ago it was the same - on descent into DPS in an A330 from HKG and cleared to an altitude BELOW the MSA.
And it happened on several occasions!
On a slightly different note, 43 years ago I was ferrying an F27 from MEL to JNB and on the sector from SIN to Medan, approaching from the SE we were cleared to overfly and turn ‘right’ for a left downwind for RWY 05. Fortunately we had been warned that the controllers periodically had difficulty in translating their language into English and often got confused between their ‘left’ and ‘right’!
Needless to say, we ignored the instruction and made a safe landing.
Several months later a Garuda aircraft crashed into a mountain after following the ATC instruction to turn the wrong way!
Last edited by Arsey Duck; 26th Feb 2024 at 23:13.