Accident Investigation Report revealed
At least the official report was submitted. It was kept secret, but today Turkish press reported it extensively.
a couple of days ago the Minister gave a press conference and claimed that the accident was "an ordinary CFIT." However the continued press digging in. The 361-page report laid bare serious misgivings such as:
1) Both CVR and FDR had not been working for eight days before the accident. And plane continued flying in that state!
2) EGPWS was faulty, the audible warning was not working, and it was recorded by the pilots before the flight!
3)The pilots' training and experience with MD83 were very limited, below standarad, and they were flying to Isparta for the first time.
4) The approach data was not keyed into the FMS
5) During final approach the pilots experienced a flap/slot problem.
6) That event created loss of spatial awareness and the pilots made a 30 dgr error on the final turn, heading 253 instead of 193, and flew into the mountain.
Let us press on to avoid yet another whitewash with "pilot error" pretext. This whole event was a corporate manslaughter/murder case where the liability goes high into the the state authorities that were supposed to oversee civil aviation.