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Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by sneak on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:38AM (#25890658)
Maybe I'm missing something, but does El Paso not have localizers/ILS?

GPS isn't used for the final, why did a GPS outage put this flight in danger?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system_loca...

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Re:FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U... by lpmusix on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:12AM (#25891097)
There is ILS, but only on RW 22 -- https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/ELP/IAP/ILS+OR+LOC...

Based on the article, I assume they tried that a few times but (cross)winds made it too risky.

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