Originally Posted by
prospector
Yet still missed the fact they were on the wrong side of Beaufort Island, Beaufort Island was certainly visible, it shows up in Pax photo's.
And as I raised with you last week for that all he had a strip chart that is hardly the tool for visual navigation.
a.nd IF it was a photocopy (as some other charts were) the island outline is not visible on the copy.
Where were the topo maps supplied by the company? you didn’t reply to that question.
And I say again, they probably would have ploughed in all the same at 6000. Even the Chippendale report gives information to support this. The VMC descent to <2000 is a distraction.
The big issue here -that AP touched on - is the scope of legal responsibility and accountability. Courts and accident investigations operate in two different paradigms.
There is a much more recent example in the news of a court case finding the tasking agency guilty for allowing a situation where a pilot died on the ground. It was reported that both the defence of individual responsibility and that he had instructions to turn back if he thought the ground conditions dangerous were rejected by the judge. Very similar legal parallels, 40 years later.