RADIO CONTACT
Of course, there is one other really obvious thing that, to my knowledge, has not been brought to closure - and it is one that any of you mil flyers should be on to:
the un-answered call from ZD576!
There are two sources from which this matter should have been cleared up:
(1) recordings at the various ground stations that could have picked them up (as suggested by someone else recently on this thread);
(2) in the apparent absence in recordings of any further calls either way between the a/c and ground, why was the ground controller not hauled before the Parl inq or FAI to make a clear statement - after all, a reply from ground was to be expected in the circumstances and there was time for this to have happened - and without this call, it needs explaining why ZD576 continued without prompting the ground controller again.
This issue has been too lightly ignored in the inquiries and yet it is very pertinent, surely?