CHINOOK
Tandemrotor.
Thanks for your contribution, but emotional expressions such as 'garbage' do not really get us any further. Do I really think that the crew entered a cruise climb in bad weather, hoping to clear high ground by,say, 500 feet? Yes I do, and they were not the first very experienced aircrew, nor I'm sorry to say will they be the last, to do such a thing.
I do not like it any more than you, but that is what happened. If there is any other explanation that fits all the facts we have yet to hear it.
I have had my say, and apart from waiting to hear from Brian Dixon on the significance he attaches to the unanswered RT call he mentioned earlier, I shall keep quiet until something entirely new emerges - if it ever does. Regards. John Purdey