I don't know exactly how bad the weather was ... I was referencing the ATL 100-1/4, which is of course thirty miles distant. Was CCO different? Almost certainly. Was it different enough to enable them to get in? I have no idea. I was flying in the Southeast yesterday, and it wasn't CAVU anywhere around that I know of, and icing, turbulence, low ceilings, and reduced visibility were forecast all over the place. As a King Air pilot myself, I probably would have tried the approach once (Part 91 after all) then, if I didn't find the field, I'd be going elsewhere ... Birmingham, Montgomery, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Macon, Augusta, wherever ATC or FSS and my preflight weather said had at least 200-1/2. I don't know what happened here, and I'm not going to jump on any bandwagons without proper investigation, but obviously something went wrong. The two most likely culprits would appear to be weather and pilot error, though almost anything is possible. No prejudgment here, just speculation, which may be (in fact, probably is) riddled with errors. But it gives us something to talk about.
In the meantime, our prayers should go out to the families and friends of those killed. I lost two close friends in crashes this year, and it is tough.
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