2022-08 · NASA ASRS report 1922589
Air carrier flight crew reported; ground personnel stated that their approach was low which damaged a threshold light. Flight crew examined that aircraft and found no indication of event.
After shutting down the aircraft in at BET we were approached by a person from the BET airport authority. They stated someone had called the airport and reported we had been really low on approach to the runway and may have hit the approach lights. Upon inspection the airport authority found a broken threshold light. The Captain was the Pilot Flying (PF). I was the Pilot Monitoring (PM). We flew the RNAV approach to Runway 19R. We had the runway in sight at about 1;000 ft. The Captain stated he was going to descend below the glide slope to land. He did get lower than I expected and I stated; 'don't scrape the lights.' We did not feel any impact and did not land short of the runway. After speaking with the BET Airport Authority we thoroughly inspected the aircraft including rolling the aircraft forward to have a look at the bottom of the tires. No damage was found. While the approach was low; given where the broken light was I do not believe we were the ones that hit the light.Cause - Low on final approach made observers think we might have hit the approach lights.
Airplane was slightly below glide path and landed just past runway threshold. Upon landing in PABE ground personnel noted to tower that a threshold light was damaged. Upon inspection of aircraft; no aircraft damage or indication of hitting threshold light was found. Cause - Aircraft below glide pathSuggestions - Airplane short approach may or may not have caused the damage to threshold light; either way if I maintained the proper glide path it would not have been an issue.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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