[reagandemo]

I would guess that this bird had a radar altimeter so the pilot knew exactly where he was. Just speculation at this point but this could be another incident like the Thurmond Munson crash and one here in Lexington Ky which the pilots misjudged the thrust and unspooled the engines too much and could not recover. If you pull back thrust there is a lag time for them to power back up. Just a thought.

[Mamzelle]

I'm curious--assuming that this is a charter flight, with few passengers in a craft often used for charters...why so early in the AM?

[MindBender26]

Too far short of runway for a slow engine response accident. Those are uusally 50-400 feet from threshold.