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42. This is the accident aircraft:

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 09:14 PM

Oct 2014

N9126V

And here is the flight profile of the accident flight last night:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9126V

Flightaware shows only one approach, and a fairly rapid descent rate of -600 feet per minute at 2,100 feet, at 00:03 hours.

The next radar return does not indicate a height.

Elevation of Dubuque airport is 1033 feet at that runway, and the minimum height is supposed to be 1,680 feet. If he really was descending at -600 feet per minute at 2,100 feet, it is easy to see why he could have overshot and flew right into the ground.

Here is VOR runway 36 approach. Don't know if that is what he was flying, bu it makes sense direction wise.
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1410/00923V36.PDF

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