Final Report A318 (F-GUGM), vicinity Paris Orly France, 12 September 2020
Final Report A318 (F-GUGM), vicinity Paris Orly France, 12 September 2020
On 12 September 2020, an Airbus A318 was seriously mismanaged during a largely autopilot-controlled ILS glideslope capture from above and despite being unstabilised after the crew had intentionally ignored required approach management procedures, the flight was continued without hesitation to a landing. The Investigation found that the operator’s oversight of operating standards relating to unstabilised approaches was systemically flawed and also insufficiently supportive of their ‘Evidence Based Training’ method used for pilot training. It was also noted that the Captain involved had stated to the Investigation that “he considered this flight as a non event”.
