Mach E, how ya doing
I doubt too many could seriously throw rocks at you for taking that position. One that most rational thinking folk would take.
I guess the culture in one of his other operations may have been influenced that way as well. Certainly had a similar but worse outcome. Casual factors perhaps.
Very sad set of circumstances.
Damning report indeed. What concerns me is that the co-pilot at no time during the descent demanded a proper brief on what the approach was going to be, at what the go/no go points would be. There was a clear case of mustgettheritis and this was apparent pretty early on.
Scud running in a jet on a short grass/dirt/gravel runway that is clearly going to be wet and slippery as a butchers block, not long enough unless dry and into wind (nil tailwind), must have looked scary long before they were across the beach let alone the threshold. And at that point could have demanded go around and done so himself before it was too late.
If Wiz had not had his back turned to the cockpit (seating wise) or had been in the RHS it is a fair bet the approach would have been discontinued long before. 20/20 hindsight of course.
Simply amazing.............