6 Feet Above Ground – How this Airbus A320 Narrowly Avoided Crashing?

A passenger flight from Sweden to Paris on behalf of Norwegian narrowly missed a crash at Paris CDG. At just 6 feet above the ground, the minimum radio-altimeter height was recorded.

Flight Details

There were 178 people on the plane, including six crew members and 172 passengers. The weather during its approach to Paris CDG was cloudy with rain showers. The crew said that they were in the clouds for the entire approach.

The pilots were cleared to land on runway 27R due to bad weather and low visibility. The pilots have to set the altimeter setting in order to do this. There was an issue after the Intermediate controller at CDG gave an incorrect setting to the crew members.

The controller gave an altimeter setting of 1011. The error was not picked up by ATC or by the crew because they read back the incorrect altimeter setting multiple times.

There is a conversation between the Intermediate controller and the pilot of the plane.

The Norwegian callsign is red nose.

CDG Intermediate controller said to descend 6,000 ft.

There is a flight that is 6,000 feet in length and 1 foot in width.

Red Nose descend 5,000 ft, 1011, cleared full RNP 27R.

The flight cleared a full RNP approach.

The A320 was cleared to land by the air traffic controller even though it was about to descend. On the final approach, the minimum safe altitude warning alarm was triggered. The controllers got a ground proximity alert as well. The controller asked the pilot if he was alright after he had a ground proximity alert. Do you have a good view of the runway?

The crew stated that they did not hear the radio communication while the controllers passed the message to them. The pilots said they didn't hear any radio-altimeter auto-callouts other than at 2,500 and 1,000 feet. The approach was aborted at a low altitude. Six feet above the ground is the minimum radio-altimeter height. Six feet is correct. The plane was close to the end of the runway.

There was no Terrain warning recorded during the approach according to the preliminary report.

The Second Approach

The pilots waited for a second approach after the last moment. The correct QNH was not provided to the crew members and the pilots were positioned for another approach without cross-checking the altimeter setting from other sources.

The pilots began their approach too low. The alarm went off again around 3.1 nautical miles before the threshold. The controller told the crew that the approach lights were on, even though they were not on while they were on approach. The controllers got a ground proximity alert.

The pilots noticed that the cloud coverage was not as bad as before. The pilots did a visual approach After applying a pitch-up to correct their trajectory, they continued for a safe landing.

The French BEA rated this incident as a serious incident and opened an investigation. The report was released by the BEA.

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