FLC VIOLATES MINIMUM ALT OVER FUELR INTXN DURING ARR INTO LAX.

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RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM CINCINNATI CHIEF PLT'S OFFICE ON AUG/MON/96 OF ALLEGED ALTDEV ON AUG/THU/96; ON ARR INTO LAX. FLEW CIVET ARR; RWY 25L ILS APCH AFTER ARNES INTXN. ARR AND APCH FLOWN IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLISHED PROCS AND NO MENTION OF ALTDEV WAS EVER MADE TO COCKPIT CREW BY ANY CTLR DURING ARR; APCH OR AFTER LNDG. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR WAS VERY SURPRISED THAT ANY ALLEGATION OF IMPROPERLY FLOWN APCH WAS MADE. HE WAS AWARE OF WHAT TO LOOK FOR SO THAT A PROPER APCH WOULD BE MADE. HE BRIEFED THE FO AND EVERYONE WAS ALERTED TO ALT XING. HE WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED THAT NO ONE MENTIONED AN ALTDEV IN THE AIR OR ON THE GND. HE FEELS STRONGLY; NOTHING WRONG OCCURRED. HE WAS ASKED THE QUESTION OF A CTLR CLRING AN ACFT FOR AN APCH WITH THE PHRASE 'COMPLY WITH ALL ALT RESTRS;' HOW THAT WOULD ALERT HIM TO COMPLY WITH ALT RESTRS. HIS REPLY WAS THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL; HOWEVER; HE WAS ALREADY ALERTED TO ANY PROBS REGARDING THIS PARTICULAR APCH. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 343477: APCH WAS FLOWN AS PUBLISHED; SETTING STEPDOWN ALTS FOR EACH FIX IN ALT WINDOW. NO MENTION OF ALT VIOLATION WAS MADE BY APCH OR TWR. IN REVIEWING THE APCH; I HONESTLY FEEL THAT NO VIOLATION OCCURRED. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR ACN 343477 REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR WAS VERY SURPRISED TO BE NOTIFIED THAT THEIR APCH INTO LAX VIOLATED A MINIMUM ALT. HE STATED HE WAS BRIEFED BY THE CAPT AND ALL ALTS WERE COMPLIED WITH THROUGHOUT THE APCH. HE WAS ASKED THE QUESTION THAT; IF GIVEN THE FOLLOWING ADVISORY FROM AN APCH CTLR; 'COMPLY WITH ALL ALT RESTRS;' WOULD THAT EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ALT RESTRS. HE STATED EMPHATICALLY THAT IT WOULD. ONCE AGAIN THOUGH; HE FELT POSITIVE THAT THE APCH IN QUESTION WAS FLOWN PROPERLY.