[Yosemitest]

One other point reference your comment:

"We both know there was no rain.
There were low clouds"

As a retired controller, both USAF and FAA, what you may not know about the reported weather at the time of the approach:

400 feet broken, 2,000 feet overcast, 8 km or about 5 miles visibility, rain, surface winds for 120, 12 knots

That weather had to have been reported earlier and no other official change to the weather requiring a new report had happened.
That weather could have been as old as about 4 minutes prior to the top of the current hour, or as close as 4 minutes to the aircraft commencing the approach.
Realize that even if the rain had stopped after the aircraft had started the approach, it would take a few minutes to gather the new weather information together and transmit the new report.
But all of that information is just a minor detail about that crash.

My main question is HOW did "the White House "White Mice" get there before the first medieval helicopter did..." ?

[Redwood71]

“My main question is HOW did “the White House “White Mice” get there before the first medieval helicopter did...” ?”

I think this is consistent with the possibility that the pilots never saw the crash. They were dead before the impact. There never was an autopsy of them that went public. They were disposed of and someone veered the aircraft to the location of the highest mountain there. And if that happened, the mice could have been at the bottom of the mountain even before the plane arrived. They were in place.

I don’t think the one for Brown was ever intended to be public. For years I’ve been smiling at that mistake. They could easily have said the body was identifiable, but there wee no unusual marks or signs of foul play, as they call it. I think that was a monster mistake. But they closed it before they got their entire foot in the mouth and satisfied everyone with another one, homogenized to make it palatable, and got out of Dodge, or dodge, either way you wish to look at it.

rwood