tucumseh
A very interesting post with which I cannot argue as I was not involved in at all with the introduction of the Chinook Mk2 into Service.
However, that does not in any way detract from the basic failures of Airmanship demonstrated by the Pilots on this flight - for example the disparate subscale settings on the Pilots Barometric Altimeters which would inevitably have caused confusion regarding actual aircraft altitude in relation to Safety Altitude as the aircraft climbed in IMC.