Would any of you be so bold as to speculate what was the role (if any) of a misunderstanding about station and sea level air pressure? Is that essentially why the crew thought they were well above the level of the airfield?
10:24:49,2 10:24:50,8 KBC Температура и давление, пожалуйста. Temperature and pressure, please.
10:24:51,2 10:24:58,9 KRL / Д Температура плюс 2, давление 7-45, 7-4-5, условий для приема нет. Temperature plus 2, pressure 7-45, 7-4-5, there are no conditions for landing.
10:25:01,1 10:25:10,0 KBC Спасибо, ну если возможно, попробуем подход, но если не будет погоды, тогда отойдем на второй круг. Thank you, but if we can, we would like to try approach, but if not , there will be no weather, we will leave for a go around.
...
10:27:09,4 10:27:10,7 KBC Na 7-4-5. To/on 7-4-5.
10:27:11,4 10:27:11,9 2P / 2П Ile? How much?
10:27:12,7 10:27:13,8 KBC 7-4-5.
10:27:17,9 10:27:19,6 2P / 2П 7-4-5, tak? 7-4-5, yes?
10:27:19,3 10:27:21,1 KBC 2 stopnie, 7-4-5. 2 degrees, 7-4-5.
10:27:21,0 10:27:22,2 A 2 stopnie? 2 degrees?
10:27:23,7 10:27:25,4 IP / Б/И 2 stopnie, 7-4-5. 2 degrees, 7-4-5.
And at the same time, does anyone think that the crew might not have known for any reason that the airfield was higher than the approach terrain
It will make no difference if they follow procedure.
Could I also ask, why was the plane coming in on a path somewhat to the south of the runway centre-line and not on the centre-line?
The last four waypoints were user-defined. ... The coordinates of both outer markers and ARP were obviously taken from the air navigation charts that the crew had (
in the SK-42 coordinate system, without conversion to WGS-84 system which is used by GPS). © IAC report