both to to those who care about the truth of what actually happened
Are you still trying to convince anyone that this captain could fly a perfectly serviceable aircraft into the side of a mountain that everybody knew was there, by carrying out a descent procedure that had plucked out of the air, by a captain who had never been to the Antarctic before, and after being advised that the weather conditions were below those required for the approved cloud break procedure, in fact he was advised that the weather conditions were no good for sight seeing at all, and after all this is still blameless??
Descending to low level was quite common on those gigs.
Yes it was, but that does not make it legal, and as CAA testified after, they had no knowledge of these breaches of altitude restrictions. The altitude restrictions were there because the Airline was given approval to use crews who had no previous experience down to the ice, which went against the requirements of all the other operators USAF, USN,RNZAF who had much experience operating down there.
Cazalet33, I suggest you read Gordon Vette's Impact Erebus. Have a look at the diagrams on page 46 and 47. If this crew was on the ball, and they thought they were going down McMurdo Sound, why was it not noticed they were on the wrong side of Beaufort Island? Met conditions at that point were certainly VMC, there are passenger photo's retrieved from the wreck clearly showing Beaufort Island.