Originally Posted by
weemonkey
Some quite undignified responses (near gloating in fact) on here.
Perhaps the dead should be shown some respect, gentlemen.
Indeed, and perhaps there will be effects in future that some people here and elsewhere in aviation will come to feel less comfortable about.
As I posted in the corresponding thread in the R&N section:
Apart from the bereaved families and friends, so do other people who weren't involved.
From the BBC article:
In a statement Sue and Phil Grimstone, whose son Matthew died in the crash, said: "There seems to be no justice for our son Matthew and all 11 men who died in such tragic circumstances.
"Why are we allowing any form of aerobatics to be performed when there is now doubt concerning any pilot's ability to avoid becoming cognitively impaired from the normal G forces that will be experienced during an aerobatic display?
"Matthew had no interest in air shows, he could not have cared less. Knowing he died because an aircraft was being flown for fun, for the entertainment of others makes it even harder to bear."
That middle paragraph is a pertinent question, after the defence as presented.
Depending on how future policy and practice responds to that rhetorical point, one person's successful legal defence may arguably have damaged plenty of other aviators.