Chinook
WOrkER
Indeed we shall never know WHY the crew decided to press on, though I have been urging for more than a year now that the most likely explanation (theory of course) is that they were 500 yds or more to the right of their intended track, and thus faced terrain about 500 ft higher than they expected.
The other theories very from the improbable to the impossible; for example, we actually have one contributor who thinks that a sabateur MAY have planted a mobile beacon beyond the hills so as to seduce the crew into flying towards that beacon, and thus into the high ground. This means that he knew the aircraft was going to fly this mission, with those passengers, on that stretch of the route, and in doubtful weather, and that after the crash he would dismantle his mobile transmitter and disappear. I ask you!
No amount of specualtion about supposec technical mal-functions in this aircraft can possibly account for the FACT that the crew had the choice of turning away from the hills, and chose not to do so.
And of course, the lobby opposing the verdict of crew error is deliberately trying to confuse the issue by interoducing as many irrelevany matters as they can possibly think up.
Sad but unfortunately true, the crew, beyond any shadow of doubt, got it wrong.