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We need to learn what intervention, if any, on the part of ATC. Perhaps a
vector?



Good suggestion. In fact, it reminds me is some ways of another KingAir
accident a few years back at North Adams Mass (AQW). The flight crew
apparently got their departure clearance mixed up - they read it back
correctly, but later transmissions indicated they had mixed it up. Had we not
known this, we would have difficulty understanding how they flew into a
mountain, which they certainly knew was there, and which they easily had the
performance capability to avoid.

Similar kind of circumstances - night (dawn)IMC - mountains only 2800ft high,
5 or 6 nm away from the airport. They were cleared to 5000, expecting higher
in ten minutes, but they somehow thought they were cleared to only 2300.


I'm not trying to "guess" that the causes are similar - but the line of
thinking is certainly rational.

G Faris