Whooper 5,
There were no manuals for the MkII at the time
I'm sorry but this urban myth is simply untrue. I accept that you were there at the time and this sort of scaremongering helps the case of this thread, however, to claim that there were no manuals is very far wide of the mark. There was certainly an aircrew manual, which you would have had access to. I'm sure you would have crawled all over the aircraft to locate components, everyone did to improve their familiarity, but you paint a picture of having never been shown where these items were or had any other way of finding them.
It was all a long time ago and memories of events in and around the accident may fade, but I submit that your claims are misleading.