Refer to the photo posted by compressor stall, note the position of Beaufort Island, if the VMC conditions were as good as some are trying to convince us, why was it that they did not click they were on the wrong side of the Island, if they were on the track they thought they were on. Beaufort Island is a very very conspicuous object, and not many of them down there to get confused with.
'they where lost in cloud, off track and it's pilot error'
That is not the case at all, to my way of thinking, the argument is that they commenced descent without meeting any of the requirements laid down by either CAA or the Company. As has been stated in this thread and others, all Mahon and Capt Vette were trying to justify is the sequence of events after the descent was commenced.
Last edited by prospector; 4th Jul 2009 at 00:09.