So what are you suggesting beardy, that if this particular pilot had taken more notice of the warnings being given then the accident would have merely become an incident and no-one (least of all his co-pilot) need have been injured? Well, no doubt, but he didn't, and they were. A great deal of mitigation is often needed where human factors are involved, or if you like try to make it 'pilot proof'. For goodness sake, no-one is suggesting a mega bucks solution (I did once but I think I got away with it
), just simply mark the top of the side stick mount (!) as a no-go area.
It may be next to impossible to re-enact the accident sequence, but evidently the SI managed to, and that evidence was presumably the clincher for the CM sentence. It happened, it can happen again, let's just try to make sure that it doesn't!
Or is Flight Safety just for wimps now, and we simply prosecute those who mess up, learning nothing from their mistakes?