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For these reasons, I aligned myself with his cause of the disaster very early after the release of his report in the early eighties.
The cause had already been established by the accident investigation - CFIT. A number of defences preventing CFIT were defeated by the actions (and inaction) of the navigation department and the flight crew.
A man of considerable judicial experience would likely be inclined to apportion blame which is specifically not the remit of accident investigations. In doing so Mahon overtly ignores the flight crew influence on the outcome.