Such was the requirement for routine NAVEXs that one should not have been surprised if one of the first questions asked had been “What was the NAVEX planned?”
Yet so many of you will not even consider one that fits with the available data.
How could a long flight in that area be wasted in a new a/c fitted with a useful locating aid?
We know that Flt Lt Tapper won over the duty officer for his crew to do this sortie on the grounds that they had been planning extensively for it.
Think about it.