[LINK] reliance on automatic technology settings

[Ivan Trundle]

Sorry, but none of this suggests that they ignored landing aids - it only states what speed and glide slope the plane had.


On 11/07/2013, at 1:15 AM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com> wrote:
> > In this case, the pilots flew below their landing speed for over 30
> > seconds.  They ignored visual aids at the airport intended to let them know
> > they were coming in too low (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_approach_path_indicator).
> 
> I'd like to appreciate how you know this.
> 
> The NTSB released data on the speed of the aircraft several days ago. This data was taken from the Flight Data Recorder on the plane (ie, the black box).
> 
>  34 seconds before the impact they were travelling at 134 knots, below the planned approach speed of 137 knots.  From that point, the speed continued to drop before reaching a low of 103 knots shortly before impact.
> 
>   Scott
>