B737 flight crew reported that distraction following an altitude deviation resulted in landing witho...

Attributes
ACN	1706446
Time
Date	201911
Place
Locale Reference	A80.TRACON
State Reference	GA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 218
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 465
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Overshoot Deviation - Procedural Landing Without Clearance Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

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.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew reported that distraction following an altitude deviation resulted in landing without a clearance.

Narrative: 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.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.