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Altimeter pressure setting becomes focus of fatal Angara An-24 terrain collision

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 ...
WRAL

An airfied has elevation of 2000 feet - what will the altimeter read when the aircraft is on the ground while setting 1013.2 qnh qfe qff?

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 ...
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Mahan crew failed to set local altimeter pressure

Investigators have concluded that a Mahan Air Airbus A310-300 crew's failure to set their altimeter to local pressure led to the twinjet descending far below its cleared altitude during an approach ...