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Old 31st January 2003 | 10:10
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Question Incidents of Erroneous Glidepath

Back in 2000, Air New Zealand flight 60 encountered an erroneous glidepath on RWY 08 ILS at Apia, Samoa. I've studied the 203 page report of this incident and found a reference to a similar incident at Rio De Janeiro, in 1999. I've searched high and low throughout the world wide web and can find no reference to it.

This seems strange because, the abovementioned NZ 60 report shows that both Boeing and the FAA were aware of it. Can anyone point me in the direction of the report on the Rio incident please? A URL would be great, but I'd settle for a knowledgeable independent account of it.

My web search brought up something that appears to be a similar incident in Italy, involving an Alitalia flight. The problem is that the report sems to have been written in Italian, which is not a language that I know anything about. Has anyone heard of an incident like this in Italy?

Is anyone aware of any other incidents of erroneous glidepath? I've found an ALPA comment about an erroneous Localiser, in Africa, and it would seem that such incidents aren't as uncommon as they should be. But I'm more interested in the glidepath, as I'm trying to do a report for my own masters (PNG CAA) on the frequency with which erroneous glidepath incidents have occurred.

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.
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