Fully agree!!
At the very moment they turned off AWY V 453 MEA no longer was valid for them, instead the mentioned MOA 5400 ft.
With that now no longer applicable " to maintain or above 2000 ft" part of their clearance in mind the crew might have expected to be safe under RADAR control and probably too pre-occupated with the weather at Dillingham to catch the flaw.
Would be also interesting to get to know what their filed FL on the flightplan was.
Anyway, according the Metars no chance to break clouds from that 2000 ft altitude. Guess thatīs the reason why they went inbound ZEDAG for a normal RNAV approach.
Last edited by Annex14; 17th Mar 2013 at 08:45.