Air Niugini said it would continue investigating the crash, agreeing that it was a case of "human factors" and not pilot error that contributed to the crash."What we have to understand here is the pilots didn't purposely fly that plane into the water," Air Niugini's managing director Alan Milne told reporters, after the findings were handed down.He said both were experienced pilots, and something else "was a factor there that all came together to make that accident happen".
Well that's a huge relief. The crew are off the hook. At least we now know the pilots didn't deliberately fly the 737 into the water. The airline agreed it wasn't pilot error, either. That left Human Factors and something else was a factor. The dreaded something else. Time perhaps to resurrect Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot to solve the case of the missing factor? .