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Old 17th Mar 2004, 20:36
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Kaptin M
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prospector, if your sole message is to come into this thread and monotonously re-state that the accident report is correct in its entirety, then you've bored us enough.
Your personal conjecture that the pilot "pushed on regardless" is refuted by the report, as detailed in an earlier post.

Some of us are interested in discussing WHY this pilot may have received sufficient visual miscues causing a CFIT.
Without doubt, some pilots have "busted" minimas during instrument approaches, but on this approach the CFIT was not into rising high ground, but rather at ground level, in the landing configuration.
Whilst the report answers many questions, it also leaves many not answered eg. at what altitude did the preceding B737 become visual? Did they disconnect the auto-pilot prior to landing? And if so, at what altitude?
There is a plethora of RELEVANT information that could have been provided in this report, by the crew of that aircraft in light of the relatively stable conditions, that is NOT.
Again, to my mind, the report is INcomplete as in addition to the above, no mention of NOTAMS is made, not even to the point of the investigators stating that there were no relevant NOTAMS!
Nor does it remotely address the possibility of icing, in spite of the prevailing meteorological conditions being conducive to such.
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