Crontrolled Flight Into Terrain... at high speed. Would anybody flying a helicopter with a technical fault/indication/warning continue at a great rate of knots while they were looking at solutions? Why flying a route with VIPS on a pax tasking would anybody fly below the maximum height of surrounding terrain of the route, especailly when in IMC?
My brother told me of the time he flew in a Wokka on a pax pick up/drop off sortie from the outstations in FI back to Pleasant. All the guys with their kit, wanting a safe trip so they could go where they needed to go. They got a low level nav ex, being thrown about because the crew wanted to show off to some bird on board. It wasn't operational flying training on the auth sheet!! My brother also mentioned "Cowboys" in this story.
I agree Wratten was wrong to record "Gross" without absolute proof, but the facts do add up to that of a CRM failure IMHO.