Rats. It's just another part of the holes in the cheese.
When I became Chairman of CAA those in charge of resistance to change were actually proposing a display console for FSO's that worked on flight plan inputs and dead reckoning - yes even for radar covered non controlled airspace.
My Board canned the proposal after some units were produced.
After the original cause of this accident ( forcing the aircraft inland) it may have been prevented if the pilot was informed by someone in front if a radar screen that he was heading in the wrong direction to his doom.
Now before you start abusing me and saying that those with the radar were not permitted to communicate directly to the pilot I ask "why was this so" .
Because of resistance to change I would say.
So can someone answer the question or is the answer to obvious.