From the description, it appears that nobody was watching the pressure altitude for the aircraft to get 115 meters below the established decision height. Even if they were solely focused on the RA, the valley was only 40 meters in depth, so they were still 75 meters or so below decision height. Either that, or they never set a clear decision height in their landing briefing. Did they even have a briefing?
So they are below what should have been decision height, they knew the visibility was only about 200m, or far below what should have been acceptable, ATC is telling them to level off, GPWS is telling them to "pull up", and they still didn't react until they actually saw the ground. Amazing that a high-level government flight could be operated with such lax standards.
Last edited by ST27; 20th May 2010 at 15:21.