Air carrier flight crew reported receiving a low altitude alert from ATC during approach. Flight crew corrected and continued to landing.
Synopsis
Air carrier flight crew reported receiving a low altitude alert from ATC during approach. Flight crew corrected and continued to landing.
Narrative
During a visual approach; the aircraft started out too high above the glide path. The FO was hand flying and began descending too aggressively and overcorrected; ending up low below the glide path. After completing the before landing checklist the CA recognized and called out a high rate of descent and corrections were made. Tower issued a low altitude alert. The aircraft was returned to a normal glide path and continued to land.The CA and FO were unfamiliar with the landing airport and assigned procedure; and a lack of experience in the aircraft for the FO; especially recent experience; led to a higher level of saturation during the approach. Task saturation and inadequate monitoring from PM during a critical moment prevented early recognition. Poor decision making from both pilots led them to continue to land after deviating from stabilized approach criteria.The approach could have potentially gone better if there had been a more thorough briefing of the final portion of the visual approach. Better monitoring from the PM could have also helped to correct the deviation sooner. Beyond that; the decision to go around should have been made after the deviation from a stabilized approach had occurred.
Second reporter narrative
Switched from the visual approach procedure to ILS-backed visual approach. Over corrected the higher-than the ILS glide path resulted in lower-than glide path approach; at around ZZZ DME 3. Both PF and PM recognized the over correction and made an appropriate corrective actions to return to the glide path. First time to approach in ZZZ; first time for this visual approach procedure; made PF a bit anxious; delayed the descent timing; made the over-correction.Suggestion: Make sure making a small corrections.
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Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.