On 2 September 2016, an ATR72-600 cleared to join the ILS for runway 28 at Dublin continued 800 feet below cleared altitude triggering an ATC safe altitude alert which then led to a go around from around 1000 feet when still over 5nm from the landing runway threshold. The Investigation attributed the event broadly to the Captain’s inadequate familiarity with this EFIS-equipped variant of the type after considerable experience on other older analogue-instrumented variants, noting that although the operator had provided simulator differences training, the -600 was not classified by the certification authority as a type variant.
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On 2 September 2016, an ATR72-600 (EI-FAW) being operated by Stobart Air for Aer Lingus on a scheduled international passenger flight from Edinburgh to Dublin and cleared to join the ILS localiser for runway 28 at Dublin in day VMC not below 2000 feet continued descending without clearance to just over 1000 feet above runway threshold elevation when approaching 5 nm from touchdown before beginning a go around prompted by ATC querying the flight’s altitude following the triggering of an MSAW alert. Radar vectoring to a further ILS approach to land was uneventful.
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