Having read the BoI, its very obvious to me that they (the BoI) were hell bent on blaming the dead pilot Brian Wickham. So much so that they distort the facts of the flight, and the flight simulation tests they carried out can only be described as Pathological Science.
I have reconstructed the flight from witness statements, it is clear that the crew of XD 864 had ample time to avoid the crash. They ended up after a 110º- 120º turn lined up with Runway 14 at Spanhoe in a 2.5º glide. Obviously they were attempting a wheels up on the disused strip, as reported by eyewitnesses and the Times the following day, the BS in the report that Wickham "
may have been approaching an over confident stage in his flying career" which
"could lead to slow reaction times in an emergency" is just a lot of nonsense.
Wickham wasn't to blame.
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