CNN CNsboAp G January 5, 2014 23:24:00
Trouble get until there, either because of the weather, because of unfamiliarity with the airport or both. aspen is one of the airports where local knowledge helps a lot. you have to have flown it. many times they fly pilots in there and out of there. if they aren't familiar with it, they will get a skilled pilot for aspen to take planes in and out of there. when you come in, if you don't put the plane right on the threshold, the runway has a slope too. an a eyewitness says it looked like the pilot bounce and maybe tried to take off again and then flipped. and there is no recovering from a fli...
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