a private charter jet crashes on approach to aspen coloardo with inexpericened pilots with the airline avjet the passengers are a bunch of friends who charted it. the crew know they can’t land not much after dark they decend for the runway which is challenging the crew seem too relaxed and its a visual approach which is tricky at night and with poor weather. they only have enough fuel for one attempt before having too divert and the controller hears another flight is going around in the weather and tells all crew that it missed the approach. as the weather gets worse they are told for a vor/dme approach. two minutes from landing they need to identify the runway and can see it 1000 above the field but then realise they are too low and crash short of the runway there are no survivors 2400 feet from the runway. the decent profile is the main concern as was the bank to aavoid crashing 49 degrees bank is the worry as is the control of the pilots. the engines were working. the approach is studied which is a step down apporach. it was decending too fast but the pilots has a spotless record and fatigue is not an issue. the weather was so bad that the controller was confused. they figure out that the passengers had been presuring the crew to land despite the conditions. the rcew were nervous about the delayed passengers causing issues with a 7pm curfew even calling the crew about the possible diversion issues. the interesting thing is they crashed after curfew. it proves that money and food is not worth your life.
next time water crash in norway i think. there are some interesting crashes this season look forward to covering them.
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