invertron OK i'll bite, although I am rapidly beginning to think you are just a wind-up merchant.
"had that Chinook been at safety altitude where it should have been, would they not have hit the ground?"
No? Who knows what the result of blatantly ignoring the pathetic icing clearance afforded the Chinook 2?
JP
Tandem has made it quite clear above. That you don't understand this shows how little you know about Support Helicopter operations. Lines on maps, waypoints etc. are just tools to hang a trip around.