OK people.
Lets keep this professional shall we.
Comments like;
Drove through the area a few hours before.
Low cloud covered the ridges and any attempt to maintain visual under was marginal in a car.
may be useful and if
Milt has aviation qualifications are best copied to the ATSB as well.
throw away lines in the manner of
Wrong co-ordinates on GPS most likely.
are not.
Bon Giorno makes a telling point.
So please think carefully about the what and it's possible effect on the families before you post.
The how, will if it is possible, be revealed in the fullness of time.
That 6 people have been lost is a tragedy, that 4 of them were respected and competent brother pilots should attract our professional attention. They would fully understand our interest and desire to discuss it to the fullest extent possible, but not to the detriment of their non- pilot friends on board.
There is a separate thread now running where a "technical discussion" has been raised from a comment by a poster here.