Was it safe at night?
The smoking hole 1/2 mile from the threshold of the runway speaks for itself.
Do you really think they would have crashed if they were doing the ILS approach to runway 23 ?
Sink rate ... Sink rate ... I see the runway.
All you "Real" pilots have your head in the sand if you don't think the approach design criteria had anything to do with this accident.
A non-precision black hole approach over rising terrain, yeah it's prefectly safe. Have we not learned anything over the last 50 years of commerical aviation ?
Bunch of dinosours. Hate to tell you but the Global Earth generation is going to outlaw these stupid types of non-precison approaches, it's going to hurt your "real" pilots ego's, but at least it will save lives. Get with the times Grampa's.
And spare me this wait for the NTSB report BS, hello this isn't the NTSB, it's a pilots rumour forum on the internet FFS, what do you expect ?