Are you saying, Vertico, that the pilots were just passengers, or do you think that they might have had some input - like accepting an aircraft that they were unhappy with for an important flight, and so on down the line?
What I was trying to say was that the pilots
in the period of minutes immediately before the crash might just as well have been passengers - if one or more of the possible faults which I mentioned had deprived them of control of the aircraft.
Just to specify two: a UFCM, of which the Chinook seems to have an uncomfortably long history, could have taken the aircraft off in a direction over which they literally had no control. Or a FADEC runaway to either maximum or minimum power could similarly have deprived them of the ability to fly the aircraft in the direction they wished to fly.
I am unable to comment on whether or not the pilots accepted an aircraft that they were unhappy with.