Thanks for the post.
Sounds very likely to me. One of the best I knew was killed exactly that way....and another not quite so good as well.
I aged out long ago but I think that at one time maybe back in the 1980’s the airlines put pretty heavy restrictions on circling approaches because of the dangers
Yeah, it was that long ago that most airlines put heavy restrictions on CTL approaches in their company manuals. Too much history. Lots of former co-workers of mine told me about that and I took the advice to heart for my own flying.
But I don’t think the Wx was all that bad for this one, which means he was even less cautious. Think he just wanted wind on his nose. The track of his procedure turn in the hold looked perfect. Dude was just relaxed, having a great day, gonna land at TRK and get dinner on the lake probably. Just flubbed it...bad. Part 25 jet you never take for granted. Fly it to the numbers.
Which is all rather disconcerting. I was at the airport just a couple weeks ago, hanging out on the patio having lunch watching all the corporate iron go in and out. Great fun: clear blue mountain day, everyone happy, so different from the Bay Area and the constant yammering here. Was commiserating with my son that we no longer have our own sled to get in and out of TRK which we used to do routinely - hadda sell the money sink since it was no longer being used for revenue service.
Really sad. Crap like this shouldn’t happen at a beautiful place like Nueva Truckee. Town has really been developing nicely lately, used to be pretty run down for a ski town.