Zagros A320 at Tehran on Jan 10th 2021, EGPWS alert on ILS intercept
Last Update: November 23, 2021 / 19:04:27 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jan 10, 2021
Classification
Report
Airline
Zagros Airlines
Flight number
ZO-4012
Departure
Ahwaz, Iran
Destination
Tehran Mehrabad, Iran
Aircraft Registration
EP-ZAV
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Iran's CAA released their final report in Persian only (Editorial Note: To serve the purpose of global prevention of the repeat of causes leading to an occurrence an additional timely release of all occurrence reports in the only world spanning aviation language English would be necessary, a Persian only release does not achieve this purpose as set by ICAO annex 13 and just forces many aviators to waste much more time and effort each in trying to understand the circumstances leading to the occurrence. Aviators operating internationally are required to read/speak English besides their local language, investigators need to be able to read/write/speak English to communicate with their counterparts all around the globe).
The report concluded:
the incident was caused by the high capabilities of EGPWS in identifying obstacles in different directions and predicting them according to route, speed, rate of descent. The procedures were not in alignment with the minimum radar altitude permitted 1500 feet above the highest obstacle. The border line of two adjacent areas caused a complexity in the drawings of the procedure plates with respect to minimum required heights on approach to Mehrabad.
The CAA reported that the EGPWS alarm was triggered by the Bibi Shahrbanu Mountain about 1nm ahead of the flight trajectory (if the aircraft continued on a heading of 020 degrees) with its peak at 5036 feet.
According to the procedures established by experts and approved by the CAA the minimum vectoring altitude had been set to 6000 feet leaving a safety margin of 964 feet (usually 1000 feet). At least two other flights had received similiar alarms however did not report them.
4 safety recommendations were issued as result of the investigation.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jan 10, 2021
Classification
Report
Airline
Zagros Airlines
Flight number
ZO-4012
Departure
Ahwaz, Iran
Destination
Tehran Mehrabad, Iran
Aircraft Registration
EP-ZAV
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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