dalek
<< What possible benefit could the SEAL and his fellow conspiritors gain by risking their lives to switch off the TANS computer?
The data inside is already stored. >>
Check out Tuc's excellent photo - note the unburnt grass and that the fuel tanks had ruptured on impact (no further risk of sudden fireball).
If you could recognise the nav computer that may (and did!) store invaluable data, and you didn't know any better, why not switch it off just to make sure data was not saved? As it happened, not much at all could have been done analysis wise had the STANS data been lost (pesky internal battery, eh?).
Anyway, if you were willing and able to use the data, you would surely come to the same conclusions as I in regard to a steady intended approach to a particular point and I am surprised that so many of you are reluctant to do the most basic analysis to reconstruct the final leg as much as it is possible.
At the very least it proved baseless the original official line of an inappropriate rate of climb to clear the Mull - part of the "negligence" thinking - surely enough on its own to demand the revision of the verdict.
Tuc
Got any more such photies? - eg the left hand pilot's console?
Last edited by walter kennedy; 24th Jun 2011 at 09:01.
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