sevenstrokeroll:
but there is something about night flying in nice wx conditions...you must discipline yourself to use the instruments...night, mountains...very easy to fall for an optical illusion and put the nose on the top of the mountain, thinking its the horizon...horizon is at the base of mountains!
Yep. AAL965 could see the lights of Cali from 40 or 50 miles out before they began what was essentially an uncontrolled rapid descent.
The part of Mexico where the lear crashed is similar terrain to that AAL965 impacted and that area of Mexico would have been black, black, black at the time of the crash.