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Christmas day 2012 at about 6:03 am local time a fokker 100 jet with 65 people on board left yangon international airport to mandalay international airport for a short domestic flight in the country of myanmar. And also youtube algorithm, dont demonetize me for the name of the plane thats just what its called theres not much i can do about it. This was the first leg of the flight and by 8:26 am the second leg of the flight was underway. This leg took it form mandalay international airport to heho airport. The plane quickly climbed to its cruising altitude of 13000 feet and within no time the jet was closing in on heho. The pilots contacted heho center and they got the weather data for the airport that they would be landing at. It wasnt bad to be honest, calm winds a bit of fog but they had 3 kilometers of visibility. As the jet descended the radio altimeter came on on and the first officer called out radio altimeter to make it clear that the radio altimeter was working. As the plane went through 9000 feet of altiitide the jet overflew the heho NDB. The pilots would be performing a non precision approach to runway 36 at the airport. The NDB approach needed the pilots to overfly the heho NDB and then they would have to turn to the right onto a heading of 220 degrees, after this was completed they would then have to turn to the left onto a heading of 010 from this point they would just have to visually line up with the runway. The weather was a bit foggy and so the pilots decided to talk about the possibility of a go around they talked about what theyd do in the event of a go around. As the jet started its turn to 220 degrees, the pilots had started the turn a bit too soon meaning that they were to the west of where they were supposed to be. But the captain saw the runway ahead of them and then decided to keep up with the approach. The captain saw that there was a bit of fog between them and the airport but it wasnt big enough to be any cause for concern and so they decided to go ahead with the approach. The MDA or the minimum descent altitude for Heho was 530 feet which meant that you could not go below 530 in altitude without seeing the runway. Also you have to remember that the MDA is doubly important because they were carrying out a non-precision approach. Had they been using an ILS or something like that then under very specific conditions they could have followed the radio beam all the way down to the runway. But with a non precision approach they did not have that luxury. As the Fokker dropped over the myanmarian city of heho the pilots called “i visual” as they spotted the runway. In the cockpit of the plane the workload of the pilots started to pile up as they now had to fly the plane keep up with the radios and had a bunch of checklists to go through and all of those needed to be done before the jet go anywhere near the runway. As fog stared enveloping the jet the automated voice in the cockpit started counting down the altitude. The voice said 500, then 400 then 300 then 200 and then when they were just at 108 feet the captain