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Old 25th Jul 2019, 02:03
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I don't know, but according to an article on page 42 of the latest Private Eye (#1501) it's...

"...the crash pilot [that] has now asked the AAIB to reopen its inquiry.

"Only days before West Sussex coroner Penelope Schofield was expected to set an inquest date, lawyers acting for the AAIB told her that investigators had been asked to reconsider their original finding that the crash had been the result of pilot error.

"Andy Hill [...] had asked the AAIB to look again at the case after he was found not guilty of 11 manslaughter charges at the Old Bailey earlier this year. He was cleared by a jury after arguing that the g-forces [sic] he experienced during the flight had caused a cognitive impairment -- not a factor originally considered by air investigators..."

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