"G Farris" wrote in message
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There was nothing difficult about these approaches. The LOC at that
airport
was quite simple. If they cannot read the chart for a LOC approach, what
makes you think that any new approach will be better?



This was a non-precision approach at or below minimums to an airport with
terrain issues in at least one quadrant, so it is not without
difficulties,

And what difficulties are those? It is a simple approach. If you cannot
see the airport, you execute the missed. My point was that how would a GPS
approach help, there are already a few approaches into the airport. What
makes you think that if they had a precision approach they would have been
able to fly it if they failed to fly the existing one correctly?

They could not have been all that familiar with the airport if they flew
into the highest terrain published on the chart... I think you have to
reconsider your position. I am not damning them - I think it is a shame,
but when people spout things like adding another approach to an airport
would have saved these people I wonder why they think that. There is
nothing difficult int he approach. Now, it is certainly possible that
something happened to cause this crash, but I am not going to speculate on
that, all I stated was that they clearly did not follow the instructions on
the approach chart. If you feel that is damning them, then that is your
business. I can't say that they followed the chart, because clearly they
did not, otherwise they would not have crashed into terrain.

Your ill admonishment to me is unhelpful. No one has yet pointed out why
another approach to this airport would be useful or how it would have helped
in this case. The bottome line is that you still have to execute the
approach and if they did not exdcute this one correctly, what makes you
think they will execute a different one correctly?

at
least in the judgement department. Given this was an experienced,
well-trained
crew, familiar with the airport and operating top-notch equipment, I think
it's likely there is a missing piece in the puzzle, which we will learn
from
the factual investigation. Your summary, damning report that the crew
"cannot
read" a LOC approach chart is unsubstantiated, and I believe unhelpful.

G Faris