In practical terms, the parties involved have got away with it.
A simple fine, paid for by the company from their massive reserves, and the ability of their sales people to openly tell existing and future clients, that MB took one on the chin to spare the client.
Where, as in this case, the crown decides not to present evidence to the court, the court must not go looking for it. Every player has their part, and each must do their own. Shortcomings (to be kind to them) on the part of the Police & Prosecution, are not matters for the public to resolve. Tragic isn't it?
They all get to sweep this under the carpet. I suggest that anyone who is really concerned about this should subscribe to Private Eye and read, every two weeks, about the eye watering waste of public funds, and abuses of process happening all the time.
I know that in this particular case, we are talking about the death of a fellow pilot, but the same scandals that keep that from being addressed, keep everything else under wraps as well.
If you don't like the fact that the Judge was not able to consder the evidence, then complain to your MP, that's how the system is supposed to allay your fears. An independent judiciary however, must (they say) be protected from political interference. So your MP can't change what a Judge decides to do or not do. You don't get to vote for Judges, only Judges do.
On a local level, even if everyone in your village, town, county, decided that they wanted stronger sentencing for offenders, you can't get that. The courts are independent of the elected representatives of the people. Remember the people? Those who suffer at the hands of criminals. Those people who know what they want to see happen to the bad guys.
You can lobby your local Councillor or MP, (who can't do anything about it) but whatever you do, don't try to lobby a Magistrate, Sheriff or JP. That's a different offence entirely.
The independent (there's that word again) judiciary, are protected from your interference, by law.
On the other side of the Atlantic, there is a big country with plenty problems of it's own, but they do get some things right. Particularly the process of voting for Judges. Where a court is not dishing out the sentences that a community wants to see, the voters have a chance to make their displeasure felt.
With the passage of time, this event will be consigned to a false history, like many others.
He died because his parachute failed to open.
The police helicopter in Glasgow crashed because it ran out of fuel.
ZD576 hit the ground because the were flying too low.
XV230 crashed because it caught fire.
Titanic sank because it hit an Iceberg.
The American civil war was about slavery.
Time passes, most people forget, more people die.
That's just the way it is.
Tucumseh, the process is that the Prosecution lay out their case before the court, and the Defence do their best to refute the allegations. We simply cannot allow the public to be shouting from the sidelines.
The irrefutable truth of what they are shouting, is not, legally, relevant.