How transponders, pressure altitude, and controllers spot aircraft flying at the wrong altitude.

But with a QNH setting for the altimeter the aircraft would have been barely 120m above the airfield elevation. While still 15km from Tynda’s runway, the An-24 collided with trees at an altitude of ...

Investigators have determined that the crew of an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 did not set the correct destination pressure reference for the altimeter before the twinjet dipped far below the ...

The 1995 MD-83 incident at Bradley Field, where an aircraft struck trees during an instrument approach, underscored the critical importance of accurate altimeter settings, leading the involved airline ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...