Walter said:
The accident is wholly explained by simply running on too far by reference to a false reading on the TACAN when ground detail was obscured by the ground hugging mist.
If that was so, then there'd be a pretty strong case for negligence. To do as you suggest would be attempting to fly IFR below VMC conditions, and I am quite sure that our men did not.
As one who had flown a similar route before, I would not have been surprised by getting no reply to transmissions. I'd simply wait until further up the coast, and speak to Maccrihanish once within line of sight.
THe whole point is that there is no evidence to support the finding arrived at by Wratten and Day.