CHINOOK
M134, Thanks, but no need for apologies; we are tryimg to have a civilised discussion here. As to grasping at straws, of course the crew could have turned after waypoint change. But, and as I have tried so many times to explain, I am most firmly convinced that because they were more than 500 yards to the right of where they thought they were ( PLAIN FACT: misplotted waypoint plus a certain amount of nav system error), they flew straight on. So the terrain ahead of them was about 500 ft higher then they expected. Why can so many contributers not accept this clear explanation for what went wrong? Please give me another explanation, before we go round these bouys yet again.
I don't like it either, but I think back to the many times others have made a similar mistake, and the (far too many) number of close shaves I have had myself, and I most sadly have always concluded that these splendid guys did what so many have done before them.
Yours in sadness,,, JOHN PURDEY