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[Toshirozero]

'Lets say the company didn't give them the changed co-ordinates but the INS developed a xtrack error instead, without tacan they still would have hit the mountain. Whose fault then? Chippendale would still have come to the same conclusion'.

No, the outcome in all probability may have been the same, but the cause would have been different which would have changed the IIC's reasoning on how it ended up where it did; If the INS had gone pear shaped, it would have been a clue, and clues visual or otherwise were the problem.

What would Mahon have said then?

He would have said nothing, as the Chippendale report would have found the cause was a systems error, there wouldn't have been a public furore and no requirement for a subsequent Royal Commission - Mahon would have lived out his days in relative obscurity, Vette, retired a capt with ANZ and Chippendale would have got deserved praise for a complex investigation in difficult and trying circumstances; however, the 'malevolent trick of the polar light' put paid to that, ably assisted by the chicanery of the airline and govt

One other thing I noticed, some of these comments are disingenuous at best, and at worse, deliberately misleading, for example:

" Across the world in the head office of ICAO at Montreal, the Royal Commissions report was closely studied by the Head of the Operations section, Duane Freer, who made this comment:
" What on earth is going on down there? It reads like something coming from a third world country"



But Freer wasn't referring to the content of the report,he wasn't referring to the commissions report at all, he was referring to the chaotic operating environment, lack of effective CAA oversight, poor flight planning and obvious conflicts of interest having a govt owned airline, under investigation by a govt dept...or as Sir Walter Scott put it - 'Oh what a tangled web we weave,When first we practice to deceive'