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Old 13th Oct 2010, 13:13
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Eddie_Crane
 
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It looks like they were VFR all the way and impacted the mountain whilst on visual approach due to "poor lighting". No GPWS on board either. Perhaps the haze gave some sort of perspective distortion or a combination of darkness/haze/reduced viz somewhat hid the mountain from view and the crew could have possibly not been entirely aware of how close they were to it?
Very sad accident.
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