Originally Posted by
mike734
The ATC tape I've heard start with him saying he's on a "Vi...RNAV GPS approach 19L". So it sounds like he was officially on an IFR approach but was actually on a visual. If they had entered the approach in the FMC and it was displayed on the Nav Display, one wonders how they got it wrong. After landing the pilot talks to McConnel tower to try and figure out where they are. From the level of confusion in the pilots voice, fatigue seems like a likely culprit here.
Here is the tape:
https://soundcloud.com/producermatth...-4241-lands-at
That is the first thing I thought of. Everyone has flown with those types who "fake" the approach for a visual instead (I am by no means suggesting that about these guys yet, but....). Good luck to the crew! Would've been interesting to have been a fly on the wall this morning during the morning ops meetings.