SIA 777 stopped climb at 500ft after crew's waypoint entry error

SIA 777 9V-SWD-c-Martin Oertle Creative Commons

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Pilots of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER inadvertently entered an incorrect waypoint altitude constraint prior to departure, resulting in several alerts from the ground-proximity warning system as the aircraft climbed out of Shanghai Pudong.

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