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We witnessed it approach at high speed from the same general direction as ZD576 had come from and it turned tightly to go up along the coast – over the land but not far up the slope – it passed just about overhead and we were standing a bit below ½ way between the lighthouse and the crash site, where the mist started that day – we did not see anything “overfly the Mull”.
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Whatever detachment, would not a helo doing a ferry flight from Aldergrove to Ft Geo (with or without an icing limitation in the conditions of the day) prefer the low level VFR option if conditions allowed? If it was planning in advance to go high, why would it not already have done so over the (boring bit) sea?
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I can hardly believe that the argument is still going on regarding whether it was intending to turn and continue at low level or not.