Early student. Why is descending APT and not PAT

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IATA	ICAO	Name	Location
APT	KAPT	Marion County Brown Field	Jasper, Tennessee, United States
PAT	VEPT	Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport	Patna, Bihar, India
RPM	YNGU	Ngukurr Airport	Northern-Territory, Australia

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