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Old 17th Jul 2011, 10:49
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BarbiesBoyfriend:

We may never know the FACTS about the Chinook crash, but there are facts, and maybe in time they will be known.
What a staggeringly inane statement!

There are indeed 'facts'. Precious few, but facts indeed. Such as: No CVR or FDR. No survivors or eyewitnesses. No radio calls, nor radar traces. 80% of the aircraft completely destroyed.

No reliable record whatsoever of the aircraft's flight profile nor serviceability prior to impact.

The fact that the aircraft was not able to satisfy any normal airworthiness program. Due not least to serious problems with the flight control, and engine control systems.

Need we go on!

or,

2. The pilots actually made a ccok of it, like many pilots before them and actually are guilty of what they were charged with. QED you've actually caused a miscarriage of justice by clearing them.
Although I have no idea of what point you are clumsily trying to make, please rest assured that every single independent review (there have been numerous!) of all available evidence has found insufficient FACTS to determine any cause for this tragic loss of life. But please don't allow them to prevent you from thinking you know better!

Of course we know that we have the MoD itself to thank for that very lack of evidence, since they decided in their infinite wisdom not to fit CVR or FDR, after a strong recommendation to do precisely that, after a fatal Chinook crash 8 years earlier.

I have no idea what your interest is in this case, but you're beginning to look like a bit of a 'co@k'

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