and the icing on the cake for this terrible crash was the F/O was flying the aircraft when it crashed. The F/O was brand new and highly inexperienced, flying a low vis approach (which they should not have being doing with the rvrs less than 550m)......flying with no autopilot and no flight director......it just beggars belief of the Capts thought process. Irrespective of commercial pressures the final report will zone in on the LHS.
Barbie has it in one.
BarbiesBoyfriend Look guys. These pilots knew what they had to do.
They knew that they had to wait for their 550m.
They knew that they needed to hold until they got it.
They knew that there was an alternate airfield and that it was wide open.
They knew they had the fuel for their alternate.
They knew that starting an approach without their minimums was illegal.
Yet, still they flew NO LESS THAN THREE aproaches.
For fun? I think not.
Commercial pressures are one thing (that we all acknowledge) but a stronger urge drove these pilots.
I hope it is soon revealed.