WIZELE your #319
Rumors about the "habits" of Tripoli ATC are just rumors. I am in Tripoli and I can tell you that one of the rumors I heard is that the pilot was going for 09, that the Tower told him to go for 27 due to visibility and that he replied that he was going to go for 09 because the visibility was ok.
BUT because it is a rumor I have not mentioned.
What I was trying to describe was a possible sequence of events accepting the fact that, for whatever reason, the approach was being flown to 09.
Another issue that I picked from the italian forum, it seems that the alitalia flight that departs at 0605 was at holding point for 09 and saw the crash. APPARENTLY they said they saw the aircraft impacting nose first 20 to 30 degrees nose down....