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Old 25th Dec 2012, 21:27
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Looks at first glance like a text book forced landing.
or possibly they missed the runway and crashed a servicable aircraft...? Think Polish presidential flight or Britannia at Girona. Difficult landings in bad weather,

The GPWS is likely to be a primitive one with warnings based on terrain closure rate rather than a database. So if they were coming down at 700 fpm on an NDB approach to a runway there would be no warning if they went for a road instead.
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