VictorPilot:
Equally, I know a great deal of work was done to establish the state of the aircraft systems at impact, and everything was working. Correct me if I am wrong.
Well if you insist VP! No one knows for sure if "everything was working". Equally no one knows for sure if it wasn't. What we do know is that the Chinook HC2 had more than its fair share of things not working at the time. A FADEC notorious for not working properly, a DECU connector that often didn't, software that could not be justified and a restricted RTS that BD wanted rescinding that would have grounded the entire fleet. Now it could be that all those items along with everything else that day were just tickety-boo on that aircraft, but we just don't know. That is the message that needs to be grasped here by those who now inhabit the corridors of power that you used to roam. We just don't know! Those who "do know" are I'm afraid greatly in error, to my mind obsessively so. Why should that be?