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Old 16th Jul 2016, 05:42
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ampan
 
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At least us storytellers tell a similar story. The believers are all over the place. They started out boldly going where on-one's gone before, with a claim that they the pilot was VMC when he hit the mountain. Now it's 'we don't know' / 'we weren't there' / 'we couldn't see what he saw'. We might not be able to see what he saw, but we can make some pretty accurate assumptions. There's no evidence of a murder-suicide, so the captain could not have seen the mountain. Compressor Stall has postulated, taking the view out the side as shown in the photos, that known black rocky outcrops would have been visible from more than 8km away. Assuming all of that is true, I again, on behalf of the storytellers, ask of the believers whether the captain was, in fact, VMC when he hit the mountain or, if not, whether he genuinely believed he was.
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