Hamburg Incident Highlights Dangers Of Ignoring ILS ‘Critical Areas’
Credit: Air France
Pilots of an Air France Airbus A320 hand-flying an instrument approach at dusk into Hamburg in March 2012 were misled by a corrupted instrument landing system signal before entering a low-energy state that tripped the Airbus’s automatic-protection systems. The pilots recovered to normal flight...
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