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• n  the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

• approach path
• approach
• glide slope

News & Articles

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• Airport landing system off when plane crashed in San Francisco
  By Peter Henderson and Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A navigation system that helps pilots make safe descents was turned off at San Francisco airport on Saturday when a South Korean airliner crashed and burned after undershooting the runway, officials said. The system, called Glide Path, is meant to help planes land in bad weather. It was clear and sunny, with light winds, when Asiana ...
  July 7, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News