Onur A321 at Deauville on Sep 26th 2013, 3nm from touchdown just 49 feet above runway

An Onur Air Airbus A321-200, registration TC-OBZ performing flight 8Q-1985 from Izmir (Turkey) to Deauville (France) with 220 people on board, was on a visual approach to Deauville's runway 12. About 3nm before the threshold of the runway, over the waters of the English channel, the aircraft descended to 528 feet MSL, 49 feet above runway level, before the crew in view of rising terrain reacted and climbed the aircraft to safety. The aircraft positioned for another approach to runway 30 and landed without further incident.

The French BEA reported in their weekly bulletin that the occurrence was rated a serious incident, the BEA is investigating.