Accident Report Aspen Arribal

Our assignment was to read an accident summary about a Gulfstream III and its passengers. While reading it I noticed that the flight plan from the beginning was a tight squeeze to fit. They originally only had a slim margin of time to land the aircraft because circling minimums were not allowed at night anymore so they had to get down before a half hour after sunset at 6:58pm. On top of their tight time constraints the Boss of the charter flight spend a lot of money on the dinner they were to attend in Aspen and called the charter dispatcher to insist the aircraft take-0ff even though the pilots knew they were going to arrive late. They took off late knowing they would not make the landing curfew. They also ignored the signs because around 5 jets went missed approach prior to their arrival. The visibility was very poor and the crew wasn't sure of their position or of what action should be taken. The GPWS alarm kept going off and the first officer states, "to the right" which the capitan repeats but the runway is off to the left. I thought it was weird that there was a NOTAM stating that circling was not authorized at night and since no straight in minimums were published for the VOR/DME approach the entire procedure was not authorized at night and they should never had been cleared to fly the approach. The main lesson from this article is that even if you are pressured as a pilot...don't do something that your not comfortable with. "Get there Itis" is a dangerous thing