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Old 06-21-2024 | 03:24 AM
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What is going on over there? Seems like every week a new safety issue pops up.
https://abc7ny.com/post/faa-investig...homa/14983957/
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Old 06-21-2024 | 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by SaintNick
What is going on over there? Seems like every week a new safety issue pops up.
https://abc7ny.com/post/faa-investig...homa/14983957/
money is on the simplest cause of wrong altimeter setting.

Shocker for the news, non flying people. But, all I see is that the system worked. An error was made, caught, mitigated, and no injuries or bent metal.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Beech Dude
money is on the simplest cause of wrong altimeter setting.

Shocker for the news, non flying people. But, all I see is that the system worked. An error was made, caught, mitigated, and no injuries or bent metal.
or they were visual and descending towards the wrong airport, PWA...
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Old 06-21-2024 | 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Beech Dude
money is on the simplest cause of wrong altimeter setting.

Shocker for the news, non flying people. But, all I see is that the system worked. An error was made, caught, mitigated, and no injuries or bent metal.
True the system worked, but one really needs to focus on why the system was needed and an error mitigation triggered.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 04:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Beech Dude
money is on the simplest cause of wrong altimeter setting.

Shocker for the news, non flying people. But, all I see is that the system worked. An error was made, caught, mitigated, and no injuries or bent metal.
No, it's a shocker for this 23,000 hour part 121 Captain. Looking at the flight path has me wondering what the heck was going on in that cockpit.
This is becoming a weekly thing. Sooner or later that SWA luck is going to run out.
Can any long time SWA pilots elaborate on what they think the cause of these events is?
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Old 06-21-2024 | 05:35 AM
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Article says 500' AGL at nine miles from the field?

If correct, that's not low on GS or MDA set wrong, that's more like a CFIT scenario.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Boatbuilder
No, it's a shocker for this 23,000 hour part 121 Captain. Looking at the flight path has me wondering what the heck was going on in that cockpit.
This is becoming a weekly thing. Sooner or later that SWA luck is going to run out.
Can any long time SWA pilots elaborate on what they think the cause of these events is?
I can but it wouldn’t be well received by some.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 05:50 AM
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https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/s...-low-altitude/

This looks like maybe they lined up on another airport.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/s...-low-altitude/



This looks like maybe they lined up on another airport.
that would be a much better assumption than CFIT. There ain't any there.
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Old 06-21-2024 | 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER
I can but it wouldn’t be well received by some.
do you guys back up visuals with some sort of magenta. This line up was not even close to the OKC RW course. Very strange for a Captain with the reported experience do something like this.
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