Thank you all for your opinions! Much enjoyed.
Dalek - on planning I was thinking ofthe fact that they were apparently unhappy with te aircraft rather than the bare bones of the actual sortie planning, sorry.
I am also of the opinion as a bit of a pragmatist that to believe that this aircraft flew quite happily across the sea and then somehow a fault - undisclosed - hurled it into the hillside is not believable at any level.
Sorry if this annoys the Troll hunters........................
ps Pragmatism - those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it,
and that impractical ideas are to be rejected.
Ducking now......................
