Originally Posted by
runway30
I don’t care how competent you are, if you aren’t current then you may not be as competent as you think you are. We don’t know at the moment.
Even if you are competent, you have a responsibility to make your passengers aware of the risks of single engine over water at night.
We have the basic facts of the incident. Let's digest and come back to this when the media have backed off. As sure they will when the next "scoop" comes along - probably something to do with Brexit.
Yes, there are questions to be answered about how an individual performed this flight (as PIC) but we should wait on the HARD facts.