| 1. | It had descended below the glide slope, crashing short of the runway.
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| 2. | Glide slope systems do fail sometimes, and are usually fixed quickly.
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| 3. | The crew acknowledged the transmission but not the information on the glide slope.
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| 4. | That makes the rare confrontation with an out-of-service glide slope more difficult, Roberts said.
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| 5. | Many airports, however, do not have glide slopes and pilots use other landing methods.
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| 6. | The cockpit voice recorder, though, records crew members questioning whether the glide slope was operating.
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| 7. | Twenty-two seconds later, another voice, also not identified, said, " Glide slope is incorrect ."
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| 8. | The " meatball " light aids the pilot in maintaining proper glide slope for the landing.
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| 9. | Many airports, however, do not have glide slopes and pilots use other methods for landing planes.
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| 10. | "Since today's glide slope condition is not good, we need to maintain 1, 440, " he said.
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