With three hundred feet still to go on the radar altimeter, she made a heading correction.
The radar altimeter should never be blinking, and sure as hell not so close to a mountain.
The radar altimeter was checked and reported in normal condition.
Some of these make the use of radar altimeters possible.
The radar altimeter is used to measure height above ground level during landing in commercial and military aircraft.
That would have the effect of confusing his radar altimeter, defense witnesses said.
For the next several seconds, the crew continued to call out "100 meters" as read by the radar altimeter.
With my eyes on the radar altimeter I gave it a quick blast-and lost that, too.
If he got too near the water, the radar altimeter would have given him a warning.
Laser and radar altimeters on satellites have provided a wide range of data.