Originally Posted by
gulliBell
Regarding reason 3...fundamental navigation error...I'm no expert in the human factors area, but I've got a hunch that a highly experienced crew is equally prone to making a data input error, and not noticing it, as a novice crew. I don't think experience is any protection against data input errors, and what follows thereafter, simply because that is the way humans are built. We have become accustomed to the computer being infallible and lulling us into a false sense of security against our own fallibility.
But if it was a data entry error, in their minds they were still heading to Blacksod and their mental picture would have been the approach to blacksod, then the approach they flew would have made no sense? heading to the north abeam overland to approach again over land? Surely it would have been a let down and a run in over the sea without an overfly? especially to such a low landing site? heading off overland first to approach backsod makes little sense to me in poor weather