Robin Clark
The quote regarding the forecast weather being "suitable for the flight but would have required flight in accordance with IFR in the vicinity of the Mull of Kintyre" was a quote from the Findings of the Investigating Board.
It is my belief that those words were used, after much consideration, in preference to the more condemnatory "but would have precluded flight in accordance with VFR in the vicinity of the Mull of Kintyre".