SQ Munich runway excursion

[jb747]

Sinkers likes nothing to go wrong. They are in total control. This should only happen to their neighbours, not Asian Tiger.

I see this as an own goal. An autopilot following the distorted ILS signal is quite normal, and it is the reason that the ILS zones are protected in actual Cat II/III conditions. Telling ATC that you are doing an auto land in better conditions will normally bring the warning that the zones are not being protected.

Beyond that, I find the captains comments about pushing the go around switches to be curious too. You're supposed to be flying the thing, not along for the ride. When the autopilot does something you don't want, for whatever reason, getting rid of it, and either landing or doing the go-around manually is the solution. Not changing its mode.... It just sounds like they were in 'automatic' mental mode, and had no fall back position.

As you near the ground, the autopilot authority is progressively reduced. There is plenty of time to manually fix the issue, as the a/p won't do anything rapidly.