Chinook
Whooper5. I am not familiar with the details, and anyway this thread has strayed often enough withour introducing an unrelated case.
Tucumseh.Very interesting, but several contributers have insisted that the hills were only partly covered in cloud; what is more, the yachtsman could make out the site of the lighthouse. It seems to me thereore that the crew were likely to be relying on a visual fix as they coasted in, and tragically got it wrong. 'Something to hide' sounds like a conspiracy theory, hence dangerous ground. As to the unreliability of many politicians, I agree, but surely not the whole RAF chain of comand???
Tandemrotor. We have been here before.
John Blakeley. Thanks for the helpful details, very interesting. But none of this explains why, if there was even a sniff of suspicion about the fitness of the Chinooks, they were not at once all grounded. And you have really not explained this simple omission. What had Day, Wratten, Boscombe et al to lose by taking this obvious step.
Regards. JP