Terrain! Terrain!
Talk about black hole approaches. Quito, Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre airport, albeit at an elevation of 9,223 feet, lies in the bottom of a basin ringed by the Andes Mountains, some of which top 19,500 feet. At 11:30 p.m. on May 3, 1995, the Quito basin weather was VFR, but coal-mine dark underneath a...
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