Crew given wrong airport approach

Mar 11 2010

The crew of a British Airways plane had to quickly pull out of an approach to a busy airport after not being correctly warned they were flying in an area of steeply rising ground, an official accident report said.

An air traffic controller at Glasgow Airport had written down the correct approach route for the Airbus A320 plane but had not transmitted it to the crew, the report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said.

The crew, still following an approach route given earlier, were then alerted by a "Terrain Terrain Pull Up" message from the in-plane ground proximity warning system (GPWS).