Sirwa . .They were adhering to Draconian icing limits that the new Mark II was under at the time (+4 Deg C)
Seriph. .It all centres around a waypoint change about 30 secs before impact. The fact that they made the change on the nav computer suggests that they were working VFR and were planning on continuing to do so. If they were aborting they would have done so at c.3000'/min and c.80kts,no question about it. They didn't. Their climb was an inexplicable 1000'/min at 150kts, something even the Chinook doesn't have the power in reserve to do. The suggestions are a UFCM or an NR overspeed necessitating a climb to droop it back to 100% ot thereabouts. Neither are unheard of in the Chinook and at the time the new Mark II was particularly strange in the problems it was throwing at crews; you need to read the report mate.
Edited for dodgy typing. .[ 06 February 2002: Message edited by: Hengist Pod ]
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