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Old 2nd Nov 2004, 06:49
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A Flying Tigers B747 freighter got caught out by a communication misunderstanding, on approach to KUL, a number of years ago: "Descend 2400..." vs "descend to 400.." resulted in an impact well short of the Rwy 30 threshold.

Details hazy now but we used to use it as a communications case study.
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