Chinook
Pulse1. I do not understand your confusion. There are, as been said here many times before, only two possibilities:
(a) the crew could clearly see the hills ahead of them, and prudent airmanship as well as a basic sense of self-preservation would have told them to turm away before they reached them.
(b) the crew could not see the hills ahead of them (cloud/mist/fog /bird strike/ oil on the windscreen- take your choice) in which case prudent airmanship as well as self preservation would also have told them to turn away. Please take your choice.
By the way, if you now tell us that the controls were locked solid (in all dimensions) and the power controls were also inoperatve, and that the crew thus sat there utterly helpless as they were flown into the hills by their aircraft, then we are back to where we were in this discussion about two years ago. Do come off it!!
Regards,, JP
Last edited by John Purdey; 16th Jun 2009 at 16:39.
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