Multiple Incidents: B789 deviated from localizer, descended below safe altitude
&gt; A Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 787-9, registration G-VBOW performing flight VS-206 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Hong Kong (China) with 235 passengers and 14 crew, was on an ILS approach to runway 25R at about 15:49L (07:49Z) with the autopilot engaged when veered to the right off the localizer and descended below minimum safe sector altitude. The crew disconnected the autoflight system, assumed manual control of the aircraft, re-established the aircraft on the localizer about 12nm before the runway threshold and landed safely.<p>Note that “minimum safe altitude” here is being in the glidepath where you can make the runway with total engine loss - not fifty feet above the ground heading into a building. You can tell because they regained the localizer 12 nautical miles out.<p>Still a quite bad bug that shouldn’t exist, but it sounds worse than it is.