Ark Royal. Your thesis is difficult to accept because, like the 9 possible but irrelevant technical theories that have been advanced, as well as several other red herrings, it does not accord with the known facts.
If, as you say, the crew intended to follow the coast northwards, can you offerany conceivable reason why they did not do so - unless of course, as I have suggested before, you can accept that all the controls locked at that critical point and for the next 20 seconds or so, leaving no evidence whatever that they had done so. Come off it!
Meanwhile, we are going round the same bouys yet again, and it is doing no good.
Please feel free to have the last word, but clearly we are agreeing to disagree. All good wishes John Purdey.
