The report is out (unfortunately only in
French or
German) and is pretty damning:
- The plane was actually left to be piloted by one of the 14 old passengers (with no pilot qualification) - this was not SOP (of course)
- The (actual) pilot did not have formal mountain flying training (although he was very familiar with the area)
- There were major deficiencies (aka lack of) in flight planning
- The main reason for the crash is that they were simply out of performance for the aircraft with this load, altitude and temperature. Something that should have never happened and certainly not with a kid as PIC.