Atlasjet saga continues
World Focus Airlines (now defunct, or rebranded as Ank Air apparently) was performing ACMI for AtlasJet on this sector/route.
Crew were fatigued, aircraft did have some tech issues, and EGPWS did not ostensibly function to prevent the CFIT accident. I also recall that the aircraft impacted an upper mountain plateau/slope with a very flat trajectory.
The EU had not designated either carrier on their Blacklist.
Air safety as an issue seems to have taken second stage to the blame game in Turkey with a criminal case. Criminal cases tend not to improve air safety.
However, it remains an issue in Chicago as a case has been filed there on behalf of the cabin crew and passengers. The Chicago case is against MDC/Boeing and Honeywell (EGPWS), and the Court just affirmed that they would not throw the case out and back to Turkey (inspite of the MDC/Boeing/Honeywell wanting them to do that, presumably because Turkish law pays less for deaths than US law).
Watch this space for more news.....