Transmile 727 in dangerous night short final at AKL
If the story is accurate, a wet-leased Transmile B727 flown by a Malaysian crew attempted high speed night landing at Auckland two weeks ago, and came close to emulating last years distastrous Garuda 737 overun at Den Pasar.
Story is the pilot did not initiate descent from 31,000 ft until 80 miles from AKL. The aircraft was well above profile on descent with excessive speed. Intent on getting in the pilot stuffed the nose down and at 1000 ft 4 miles out was 250 knots with Flap 2. Nothing was said from the F/O or F/E. An observer at the back of the flight deck shouted for a go-around at same time as ATC saw the danger and told the aircraft to go around. The go-around turned into a full power steep turn and tight circuit (all at night) and the max speed for flaps was exceeeded. Presumably ATC would have advised the NZ safety authority?