So far as I can see, the published conditions were poor, but not so poor that a current CPL/IR in a Baron would decline.
I also understand that the crash site was 10 miles West of Dundee, where if I read the IAP correctly, the aircraft would be about 2200ft and the terrain is about at worst 1300ft.
Whatever happened, it was probably complex and will take somebody who has access to more information than us, to work it out. That will presumably be the AAIB.
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Last edited by Genghis the Engineer; 4th May 2015 at 21:34.