As far as I know Aspen only has non precision approaches and you have to land on one runway direction and depart on the opposite and it requires special training. Downwind landings would be routine. Not to mention tricky weather. Maybe they should have gone around earlier. No doubt the final report will reflect that.
I must google the approach plates for Aspen.
A guy I know on a different BBS has flown into Aspen, you can do a circling approach but it puts you very close to a mountain off the end of the runway.
IMO silly to land with that much tailwind. It makes for a very flat approach, ground speed is noticeably greater which can mess with your head, touchdown speed will be higher so it will take longer to get stopped.
Looked kind of like they forced it onto the runway hitting nose wheel first, bounced and then a violent pitch-down that put them into the ground. Sad deal.