Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 218
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness; Distraction; Communication Breakdown
Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Landing Without Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew FLC complied w / Automation / Advisory; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Procedure; Chart Or Publication; Human Factors
While on a Visual Approach backed up by the ILS I misread the altitude at the Final Approach Fix as 2;000 feet; it is actually 2;800 feet. As I was descending we observed the PAPI as red and the perspective of the runway looked like we were low. At the same time we received a Low Altitude Alert from ATC. We immediately corrected our descent path and continued the approach. ATC queried whether everything was OK and we advised them that we had corrected our flight path. As we landed we realized that we were still on the Approach Control frequency. My suspicion is the Controller was distracted by my earlier error and did not think to switch us. We were similarly distracted and did not think to query the Controller.
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B737 flight crew reported that distraction following an altitude deviation resulted in landing without a clearance.