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Old 22nd Aug 2010, 11:28
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meadowbank
 
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Bring it on!

Just to answer an earlier point:
The Pilots would, therefore, have had only a maximum of 1.187 seconds visual warning of impact to assimilate the danger and react.
A very uncomfortable 1.187 seconds indeed, which the 2 pilots probably spent wondering what an earth had gone wrong with the aircraft that had prevented them from completing the slight turn to the left that they had intended about 30 secs before.
Although a staunch supporter of this campaign, I have no difficulty in accepting that the aircraft was IMC when it crashed, but I do have difficulty in accepting the logic of cazatou, JP et al pointing to this fact as positive evidence that the crew was negligently flying there - that is simply illogical.
The crash could equally have happened in unlimited visibility if whatever unserviceability that caused the accident still occurred, but some here seem fixated on the idea that impact in IMC equals negligence by pilots. Nonsense!
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