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Old 19th Feb 2008, 09:49
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Pilot Pete
 
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pilots from that region haven't the faintest idea how to fly non ILS approaches.
I think you are making far too general a statement there mate. We all know of the short-comings of certain cultural backgrounds with regards to flying aircraft, but you cannot tar everyone with the same brush. I bet there are pilots from that region who fly non-precision approaches perfectly acceptably, just as there are Western pilots who cock them up, and I speak from experience with regards that point. So let's not get into that kind of bigoted debate.
They had no idea what they were doing and were desperate to get visual
I think that is wild speculation. Indeed they got the approach all wrong and unstable, but how can you speculate that they did it in a desperate attempt to get visual? They lost situational awareness with a high rate of descent on, I can't see that it was a planned attempt to dive below cloud to get visual.....

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