Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
An airbus did it in Denver less than a year ago, I think. I know it happened, but can't remember the date.
It was either United or Frontier in a bus.
They woke up to ATC yelling at them b/c they reached DEN and the FMS was flying circles over the last fix in the box.
FWIW, Frontier does a fair amount of stand ups, as does SKW. We all do the damn things.
I think you might be referring to this incident.. The report came out a year ago on the news but the incident occurred in March 2004.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...68/detail.html
FWIW the airbus box on a 320 series won't fly circles around the last point unless the box was programmed to do so by a database arrival procedure.
Normally, the aircraft would fly into a discontinuity at the "end" of the flight plan and continue on present heading indefinitely