Almost a Repeat of Asiana 214

[Art VanDelay]

This time by EVA -

Incident: EVA B773 at San Francisco on Jul 23rd 2013, descended below safe height
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jul 25th 2013 18:05Z, last updated Thursday, Jul 25th 2013 18:05Z
An EVA Airways Boeing 777-300, registration B-16701 performing flight BR-28 from Taipei (Taiwan) to San Francisco,CA (USA), was on final approach to San Francisco's 28L being cleared to land when the aircraft descended to about 600 feet about 3.8nm before the runway threshold (about 600 feet below glidepath, remaining glidepath angle 1.5 degrees instead of 3 degrees), tower warned the aircraft "climb immediately, altitude alert, altimeter 29.97", the crew initiated a go-around and positioned for another approach, that concluded in a safe landing about 13 minutes later.

 

[nosehair]

Izzat dang glideslope still out?

 

[us AAirways]

how 'bout....flying the f'in plane?? Shouldn't need no glideslope.

 

[marcoseddi]

Wow wonder why atc had to say something. Plane didnt warn? The few pilots aboard didnt see?

 

[Pi1otguy]

I take it the pilots owe the tower guy a beer or something?

 

[JOhnH]

I take it the pilots owe the tower guy a beer or something?

The passengers owe the tower guys a beer.

The pilots are going to need every nickel they can get their hands since finding another job will be rather tough.

 

[matthammer]

Is there a public source for this?

 

[docmirror]

How does someone get 600' low on appr? I assume the tower got a low alert, but were the operators(they weren't pilots) playing Nintendo or something? I've never missed an alt by 600' before, that's nuts.

 

[ClimbnSink]

Capt. Sum Ting Wong again?

 

[Art VanDelay]

Is there a public source for this?

This is all I've found :

http://avherald.com/

Perhaps someone could find a transcript from one of those sights that monitor air traffic comm ?