Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
True, but not exactly what he said or thought at the time. I don't think his book explained exactly what he did either that lead to the aircraft departing controlled flight at low level. If I recall correctly he was still promoting the idea that there was something wrong with the aircraft controls and that the engineers on the squadron knew about it.
Correct, it doesnt go into much detail on the BOI findings, other than to say that "pilot mishandling" was the cause and that any references he, or the engineers, made to the jet having "problems" were "swept aside".
All in I found his book a pretty honest and interesting portrayal of somebody the wrong side of 40 being sent into a combat zone. Though he says enough to make me belive that his own misgivings rubbed off to some negative extent on the team he led.
All history now of course, and not really the subject of this thread, so apologies.