Originally Posted by
Klimax
The self invented IFR procedures based on self programmed GPS waypoints and programming has been used by pilots of all origins for a long, long time in the African continent. This was very likely CFIT, the only question is really why and how. Hopefully management will be held accountable, as they most of the time are part of the “problem”. My thoughts are with the families of the crew and passengers.
we were already using "self-invented IFR procedures" on self-programmed GPS" going into Arusha, TZ, already back in 2002. I would think that with today's glas-cockpits, or portable GPS, situational awareness would be much easier. Understood they were vectored away from their route, towards JKIA but would love to see ATC transcripts, did they vectored them lower or didn't give them a climb to pass the Aberdares. Those have been a plane catcher since the beginnings of aviation in Kenya.
Really sad.