About a month ago, an A320 aircraft operated by Air Arabia reportedly lost altitude shortly after taking off from Italy, triggering the aircraft's GPWS, before the aircraft recovered and resumed flight towards Jordan. After conducting a preliminary assessment of the incident, Italy's Civil Aviation Authority has classed it as a serious incident and earlier this week opened a safety investigation.
Data reports that the aircraft had descended as low as a couple hundred feet over the sea before the crew recovered the aircraft and continued the flight.
Avoiding A Deadly Incident With Water
On Monday, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, ANSV (Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo) , issued a press release regarding an incident from September 20 , when an Airbus A320 aircr