Originally Posted by international hog driver
On the 20/1/92 an A320 flew into the top of a hill near Strasbourg. The pilots mistakenly had set “3.3” in the mode control panel of the autopilot, thinking that they had set a 3.3 degree descent path. What they had actually done is set a 3300fpm rate of descent and the promptly crashed.
Well, not quite. The report did not determine whether that was the case or not. They did rather a careful analysis of all the possible causes consistent with the evidence, of which this is one. The analysis is worth reading.
PBL