Chinook - Still Hitting Back 3 (Merged)

[walter kennedy]

paddyfactor
You don't have to make a choice between the full “conspiracy theory” and the airworthiness scenario – there is the analysis which points to an undisclosed activity near the Mull – just that part gets them cleared.
Of course, analysis pointing to a controlled approach that was misjudged for whatever reason does contradict the relatively innocuous airworthiness debate and leads to further questions as to how they were misled as to the range to their LZ.
And regarding your dismissal of any kind of “conspiracy”:
<<... my father was probably the biggest advocate of aggressive action. Despite this he was fully cogniscent of what was happening in the halls of NIO and had long ago resigned himself to the lack of political will in dealing with terrorists on our own soil. >>
Someone else had this view many years before – Airy Neave – consider for a moment his situation (very briefly):
he was to be Thatcher’s intelligence co-ordinator and had replacements lined up to head MI5 & MI6 (Christopher Tugendhat and Sir Christopher Sykes respectively);
he wanted a big move against the IRA, hard tactics and at least a big round up;
he was blown up in a secure underground car park, Sykes was shot dead outside his own home, and there was an attempt on the life of Tugendhat.
Now consider the team aboard ZD576:
despite your reassuring comments, they were also planning hard tactics including a possible mass round up and many of that team believed a military solution was both possible and needed.
Neither Neave et al nor the team on ZD576 could have been stopped as and when they were without “inside” help – certainly many well placed figures thought that about the Neave affair at the time.
“Stuff” happens.