-JC-
3rd Jun 2010, 13:54
UAL901, B744, FRA-SFO, 2008.01.15, Anyone have any more information on this incident as reported by CBS news ?
Video Library - cbs5.com (http://cbs5.com/video/[email protected])
The story is high on drama and light on actual facts (typical media). From what little information you can read off the documents it appears they ended up on the LDA approach course for runway 28R when they were expecting to be on the ILS approach track. The LDA localizer is offset and would explain the depicted track they show for the second approach. The database error appears to have something to do with the identifiers for the 2 approaches in the FMS, they apparently entered the LDA approach thinking it was the ILS in the FMS ? Then thought they were seeing a map shift as they approached the localizer ? There is no mention of this incident in the ASRS or NTSB databases, probably because appart from flying the wrong localizer track it was a non-event, but still lots of unanswered questions, it would be interesting to know the whole story.
JC
Video Library - cbs5.com (http://cbs5.com/video/[email protected])
The story is high on drama and light on actual facts (typical media). From what little information you can read off the documents it appears they ended up on the LDA approach course for runway 28R when they were expecting to be on the ILS approach track. The LDA localizer is offset and would explain the depicted track they show for the second approach. The database error appears to have something to do with the identifiers for the 2 approaches in the FMS, they apparently entered the LDA approach thinking it was the ILS in the FMS ? Then thought they were seeing a map shift as they approached the localizer ? There is no mention of this incident in the ASRS or NTSB databases, probably because appart from flying the wrong localizer track it was a non-event, but still lots of unanswered questions, it would be interesting to know the whole story.
JC