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Old 26th Dec 2011, 13:55
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From a public domain source, this link takes you to the poor quality scan of the report. Some diagrams are not readable, but the reasons for the crash can be easily determined. It is not comforting reading.
Poor quality as to diagrams, but certainly adequate as to text.

The circling area and the crash site location appears to be almost exactly what we went through here just after the crash.

My plotted position of the crash site differed 325 feet from the coordinates in the report. It is dramatic to see how far they strayed beyond the PANS-OPS circle to land protected area. As they approached the crash site no one was in control of that airplane.

I find it interesting that one of the recommendations of the report is the establishment of an instrument approach to Runway 12 if possible. As I demonstrated last year the only barrier to an RNAV IAP is political, not terrain. Further, unless the VOR station has performance issues, a VOR/DME approach is also feasible. Finally, unless the back course has issues, a BC/DME approach is also feasible.
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