Please HELP ME!!!

Please describe how you would go about organizing your investigation into the crash of Peak 1680:

• What do you know?
• What does the scene tell you about what occurred?
• Evidence collection - be sure to think about the 4Ps: physical, photographic, people, and paper.
• What might be some of the potential data analysis methods you may consider using to determine the accident sequence and identify causal factors?
• For each causal factor, what recommendations for corrective action might you suggest?

Peak 1680, monitor 118.7, runway 4 right cleared to land. Wind right now is 330 at 21.

>> Monitor 1187, cleared to land runway 4, Peak, 1680. Approach peak 1680.

>> Go ahead, peak 1680.

>> Yeah, there's a cloud in between us and the airport and we just lost the field.

Can we get vectors for the ILS?

>> Peak 1680, try heading 220 and I'll take you out for the ILS. Right now there is heavy rain at the airport, visibility is less than a mile, runway 4 right RBR is 3,000. Wind 350 at 30 gust 45, runway 4 right clear to land.

>> 030 at 45 peak 1680. There's the runway off to your right. Got it?

>> No, I don't see it.

>> I've got the runway in sight, you're on course, stay where you're at.

>> I've got it now.

>> Wind is 330 at 25.

>> 500 feet.

>> Wind is 320 at 23.

>> We're way off course, we're way off.

>> I can't see it.

>> You got it?

>> Yeah I got.

>> Sink rate?

>> 100 feet.

>> Sink rate?

>> 50.

>> Sink rate?

>> 40.

>> Sink rate?

>> 30.

>> Don't sink, don't sink.

>> 10. We're down, we're down. We're sliding.

>> We're on our brakes.

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>> Absolutely I have about 8000 hours in a C-141 and a few older aircraft. I retired from the Air Force in 1998. So I think I can speak from a good point of reference. Sure thing, but call me JD. I was seated in row seven on the right side of the aircraft and behind the first class section.

It was inconceivable to me that a pilot with these qualifications could actually commit to such an approach. I was dumbfounded the whole way in. I was in the aisle screaming at the cockpit to get their act together before they killed someone. I knew the approach was long because I saw the stripes on the runway, but then from my position near the window, I could see the centerline and we were way to the left side of the runway and that was really not good.

That's really a good question. It just didn't feel right, the rain, the darkness, the wind, they just didn't feel right. Exactly. I felt the plane sliding as if going off the side of the runway, back onto the runway, then off again.