Originally Posted by Greybeard
In the early 1970s, a DC-8 freighter captured a false LOC beam into Cold Harbor(?), Alaskan Aleutian chain, and hit a mountain.
Nope, in the early 1970's a DC-8 hit a mountain near Cold Bay, because the captain was wandering around, a long way from being anywhere close to the localizer, knowing he was not on the localizer (or anywhere close) well below the sector altitude, and an altitude that he should only have been at if he was established in the inbound course. There may have been some difficulties with the navigation radios, but that was because they were below the mountains in a place where they never should have been.
Read the report and especially take a look at the map with the aircraft path compared to the transition route and approach. They weren't even in the same ballpark.
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