Passengers can be a Pain

This accident is a tragic example of passengers pushing the pilots to do something unsafe, and the pilot bending to the will of an overbearing boss.  I think that the contributing factors were the pressure put on the pilot by the passengers, and the pilot's choice to continue on the approach.  The weather also played a factor, as it seems that there was drifting snow showers that rapidly decreased visibility in certain areas.  I believe that the error chain started by planning a departure time that only allowed one hour of time between proposed arrival time and the landing curfew time.  It then continued when the pilots continued to allow themselves to be pressured.  The next link was the pilots decision to shoot the approach when other business jets had to initiate missed approaches.  The one part that doesn't really make sense is the choice to allow a passenger into the jump seat.  Although the passenger probably didn't verbally push the pilots to continue the approach, the presence of the passenger probably provided a reminder of how angry the boss would be.  The pilots probably should have started out the flight by telling the passengers that there was a really good chance they would need to divert because of their late departure time and the weather in Aspen.  They also should have been prepared to initiate a missed approach after the jets in front of them needed to.  One of the biggest choices they should have made would have been to stay on the approach path and not try to shoot a contact approach to an airport they were unfamiliar with at night.  I think that I would try to convince the passengers of the reality that we would probably need to go to Rifle, Colorado.  No matter how much the passenger pushed, I would not try to do something unsafe.  At the end of the day, I think that any company would understand my choice.  And even if I lost my job because of the boss' insistence, I think that it would be easy to explain to a future employer.  If they were a company that legitimately placed safety above all else, they would understand my decision and not hold it against me.