The one-day NTSB investigative hearing into the Aug. 14, 2013 crash of a UPS jet on approach to the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth (Alabama) Airport included evidence that the flight crew was fatigued, and that the captain had said the schedules were "killing him" and he "couldn't keep this up." According to the San Francisco Chronicle, documents and testimony indicated the crew made several errors on the night approach, including continuing to descend below the minimum descent altitude into a layer of clouds.The runway at the airport with vertical guidance on its instrument approach system was closed, so the flight was making a non-precision approach. The crew should have stopped descending at 500 feet above the ground and remained at that altitude until they could see the runway lights. The Airbus A300-600F hit a hill less than a mile from the runway threshold.
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