John Purdey, you missed something rather important out of your quote from Davaar Lad. He explained at least partly why he took the action he did -
Bear in mind also that I knew another helicopter had just crashed in the same area and I was not interested in suffering the same fate.
That knowledge was not something the crew of ZD576 had the benefit of.
You also say
I know that I would not have done so.
(referring to pressing on over those cloud-covered hills). I don't understand how you can say such a thing without any doubt, when there are ways in which you might have been misled into thinking that what you were doing was safe.
airsound