Pilot says ILS wasn't working at the time of the accident.
http://portalexame.abril.uol.com.br/.../m0134242.html
"um experiente comandante com mais de 15 000 horas de vôo, pousou em Congonhas cerca de dez minutos antes do Airbus que se acidentou. Pouco antes de aterrissar ele recebeu por rádio o aviso da torre de que o ILS não estava funcionando"
Means
"An experienced comander with more than 15.000 hours of flight, landed in congonhas about ten minutes before the airbus accident. Before landing he received by radio an advice that ILS wasn't working".
Not only that, see this:
"De acordo com relatos de especialistas, o piloto da TAM passou da faixa de 1 000 metros em que deveria começar o pouso"
Means
"Specialists told that the TAM pilot started the landing 1.000m after the initial point that the landing should have started."
Can someone confirm that ILS wasn't working ?
If so, now we have:
- Rev-2 INOP
- No Grooving on the runway
- Bad weather
- High weight
- Small Runway
- No ILS
- Started landing at +1000m ?