Originally Posted by
Zard
If you look at the rnav 13 at okc, there’s a step down point inside the FAF that’s about 400’ off the ground. I wonder if they pulled that point up when they were cleared for the visual and went down to that altitude.
I could buy that, but still they would have seen they were 8 miles from that fix right? I guess if they forgot to brief the airport elevation AND were looking at the stepdown fix instead of the final approach fix AND mistook a highway for the runway, confirmation bias could have messed with their SA.
Then again I've seen some people do some truly inexplicable things with the FMS.