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From the minutes of the HOL Commitee:
CHAIRMAN "It should be said that before the Board, I think, he was asked two or three questions and that was about it."
Hardly a definitive statement.
The fact remains that to the BOI his written statement on oath, signed by him, states that the visibility was "1 mile limited by haze". In addition he did not mention his "cabin boy" being called up on deck to look at the helicopter -nor the fishing vessels that he told the FAI he was manouvering around.