RC:-
and if it were pointing in the direction of travel I think that would be enough to unlock the toggle...
Well maybe, but that wasn't Mr Cable's view, nor was it that a highly strung Seal could have leaped into the wreckage moments after the crash (which he had engineered of course) found the switch and turned it OFF, before fire engulfed it and sooted it as OFF thus confusing the issue. I do not think Mr Cable was confused. When he says the switch was OFF on impact what he meant was that, based on years of looking at holes in the ground full of twisted metal, the switch was OFF at impact!
Mind you, Walter is right to suspect a conspiracy here. There was one, and it was to divert attention from the Gross Unairworthiness of ZD576 and put it instead elsewhere, ie on the deceased pilots. That conspiracy still continues to the shame of the Royal Air Force as well as the MOD, which of course has no shame. Tuc sums it up succinctly and correctly as ever when he says of this sham of an Air Accident Inquiry:-
a Mickey Mouse investigation into a pre-determined cause.