Chinook
Hi Brian Dixon.
Simplistic is the right word for your last comment. And I am not sure why the precise evidence of the 'lone'yachtsman' is thought be be so very important. I mean, is anyone suggesting that the aircraft was not at very low level, and at (lets say) highish speed heading directly for cloud covered hills?
THAT was the negligence, and it does not matter exactly when the crew embarked on that profile; the fact is that they did so (unless of course you accept the opinion expressed by some contributors to this very long thread that at some point after waypoint change all the controls locked and flew the aircraft and the helpless crew into granite, incidentally leaving absolutely no trace of technical failure, but leaving evidence that there was a last second attempt to pull up, ie someone was after all in control at that point). JP