1999-01 · NASA ASRS report 424646
FLC OF A SUPER MD80 MADE ILS APCH AND LANDED WHEN THE ARPT WAS RPTING BELOW MINIMUMS SINCE THE FLC HAD THE RWY IN SIGHT DURING THE ENTIRE APCH.
LOCATION: FINAL APCH ILS RWY 30 AT LGB. SHORTLY AFTER CHKING IN WITH THE FINAL APCH CTLR; CLRNC WAS RECEIVED TO FLY THE ILS APCH TO RWY 30 AT LGB. AT THAT TIME; WX WAS RPTED TO BE ABOVE MINIMUMS. SUBSEQUENT TO RECEIVING APCH CLRNC; WE WERE DIRECTED TO CONTACT TWR. UPON INITIAL CONTACT WITH LGB TWR; THE CTLR UPDATED THE LATEST FIELD WX. VISIBILITY; DUE TO PATCH GND FOG; WAS RPTED BELOW MINIMUMS FOR SAID APCH. SINCE THE ACFT WAS NOT ESTABLISHED ON THE FINAL APCH SEGMENT; I NOTIFIED TWR WE WOULD BE UNABLE TO CONTINUE THE ILS APCH AND REQUESTED FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. THE CTLR DIRECTED ME TO CONTACT APCH CTL. 2 UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH APCH CTL. DURING THE PROCESS; VISUAL CONTACT WAS ESTABLISHED WITH RWY 30. I THEN RETURNED TO THE TWR FREQ AND INFORMED CTLR THAT RWY 30 WAS IN SIGHT. HE THEN ISSUED LNDG CLRNC. WITH THE RWY IN SIGHT AND THE ACFT IN A POS FROM WHICH A DSCNT TO A LNDG COULD BE MADE USING A NORMAL RATE OF DSCNT AND NORMAL MANEUVERS; I DIRECTED THE COPLT TO CONTINUE THE APCH TO LNDG. FROM 1600 FT MSL TO TOUCHDOWN AND ROLLOUT; 1 OR MORE OF THE REQUIREMENTS; OUTLINED IN SECTION 10-5.2 OF FLT MANUAL PART 1; WERE CONTINUOUSLY IN SIGHT. NORMAL LNDG WAS MADE.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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