This from para 377
incompetent deceptive amateurs serving as the governments whore.
Brian, you obviously are not reading what anyone else is posting when you post such garbage
You're really sinking to new lows Ornis. Please inform us who ever called Chippendale a whore, besides your good self.
Whiteout can be a problem no matter the altitude. In the case I experienced we were at 18,000.
The point I was making, is that no matter what track they thought they were on, the mountain should have been visible from many miles away, unless it was covered in cloud, which it was. The final moments may well have been sector whiteout, but it was to avoid such a scenario that the descent requirements were as they were. Bear in mind it was NZALPA that insisted that all their captains "had a turn" on these flights, not like the other operators who had to have been down to the ice a number of times before they went down in command.