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BEA reports that an Airbus A320 pilot manually flew a visual approach with too much bank, lost sight of the airport, before descending on a flightpath which was far offset from the runway centreline
The captain opted against vectoring for the ILS to Pointe-a-Pitre’s runway 12, requesting to fly a visual approach instead. he disengaged the autothrottle and autopilot and started the turn 15sec later, abeam the runway, at around 2,000ft and the captain briefly lost sight of the runway. the aircraft’s bank, initially 15°, increased to 28° and this tighter turn, combined with a wind from the northeast, meant the aircraft rolled out on a course parallel to the runway but 1NM to the right. the aircraft’s bank increased, , descent rate also increased to 1,570ft/min and more than 2,000ft/min a few seconds later.
By the time it had turned to a heading of 100° it had descended to an altitude of 1,100ft, triggering a warning at the air traffic control tower. The controller, who was clearing the aircraft to land, immediately instructed the crew to check their height.
The crew read back the landing clearance, and the controller again mentioned the altitude alarm. The crew then realized the aircraft was not following the runway centreline, and aborted the approach. The 320 had descended to 460ft while some 2.5nm from the runway threshold. During the go-around the A320’s minimum speed was 128kt compared with the approach reference speed of 138kt. The crew subsequently conducted an ILS approach and landed normally.

Over the course of 2020-22, five Air France flights were the subject of safe-altitude alerts during visual approaches to Pointe-a-Pitre at night. Four of these occurred with the aircraft turning with “significant” vertical speed.
Air France issued a recommendation in 2021 that pilots should exercise “strict monitoring” of the vertical speed during the turn.
it has since reinforced safety measures for visual approaches at night.

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Cockpit-voice recorder information was not available to the investigators.

pour moi c'est totalement incompréhensible qu'un équipage puisse effacer les bandes.

Arcimboldo a écrit : vendredi 08 sept. 2023 13:15 Salutations Marc.
Au plaisir de lire tes posts.
Arcimboldo

Bugs a écrit : vendredi 08 sept. 2023 16:36 Marc, le retour!!!! Bienvenue...