fishbangwallop;
Did you not see my earlier post about the actual weather at the crash site!!
The 'earlier post';
"It's misty, the cloud is down to 600ft and the rain is very heavy so I can understand how something like this could happen."
fishy, I may well have just polished off a bottle of Merlot, but I just cant see where your coming from.
So it was 600ft with 1000m+ vis and the ac was taking off! And.....?
Where did the RAF Sea King have to come from and where was it going to 'let down' once it arrived on scene?
Certainly not in the mountains with a 600ft cloud base!
Perhaps that's the real reason why it had to wait 3 hours!