Excargodog

I realize that was the requirement to legally fly the approach, however if they'd done no more than tune to the frequency of the second NDB (CV) rather than continuing outbound on the first NDB (KLP) they would have at least missed the mountain and gotten to the missed approach point. Which - as I said - shows US pilots (barring our Alaskan brethren) tend to not be very proficient in ADF approaches.

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But yeah, the plane wasn't equipped to fly the approach legally at all. You can't help but wonder if the aircrew felt sort of pressured to get the VIPs to their trade mission. A few times I've witnessed VIPs trying to strongarm young Captains into doing inadvisable things. I remember one young Captain who was ORDERED by an (unrated) O-6 not to weather divert because he had "an important meeting to get to" the young Captain picked up the clipboard with the flight orders on it, shook his head sadly and said, "Sorry, sir. I'm the one with the asterisk behind my name, we are going to divert." I understand the O-6 had to go to the airlift squadron and publicly apologize. But that was an O-6, not someone in the line of succession to the Presidency, albeit pretty far down.