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You need to go back a long, long way - I was FS1 at 1Gp at the time the BOI was published 13 years ago.
As ACM Sir John Day stated in evidence to the HOL Committee:
"RAF Visual Flight Rules require the crew to have a minimum visibility of 1km."
"If they could see the cliffs at a range of 1km, I am convinced that no reasonable pilot would then have flown straight on towards the rapidly rising ground before intending to turn left along the line of the cliffs whilst remaining below the cloud base. If this was their intention, they should have started to reduce speed and turn left between sighting the cliffs and making the Way Point change. We know they did not do this.
If, on the other hand, they sighted the cliffs at 1 km range and intentionally decided to proceed straight ahead and cruise climb on track over the mountain, the pilots action's would have amounted to recklessness, which is a more severe degree of negligence than Gross Negligence."
I concur with Sir John's statement.