BN2
'Meeb', don't quite get your point that you don't agree with the report's findings ! What is it you don't agree with ?
This was a routine amb. flight to Cal and as such would have been the most frequently operated flight of the Western Isles,as indeed it still is today albeit by a different operator.
Those in the know will realise that it would not have been a difficult approach in the weather conditions of that evening and it would be bread and butter for any of the Loganair Amb. pilots .
For any one who has done that approach especially at night will know just how difficult it is to attain any kind of visual reference during both the outbound and base turn segments of the approach due to the approach being over the sea.In my opinion the pilot may have tried to convert to a visual approach during the turn and lost sight again of visual references.In this case it becomes very similar to the G-BEDZ accident in Tingwall,Shetland several years ago !
As someone else said.......'There but for the grace of God'......
B.