Originally Posted by
prospector
It found the airline reset the plane's navigation systems without telling the pilots, inadvertently setting the aircraft on a collision course with the side of the mountain"
Obviously you are a believer that this statement is correct. .
No, that statement is incorrect and written by a person or persons with a limited command of the english language and even less knowledge about aircraft navigation systems.
The following statement, however, is correct:
"In my opinion therefore, the single dominant and effective cause of the disaster was the mistake made by those airline officials who programmed the aircraft to fly directly at Mt Erebus and omitted to tell the aircrew. That mistake is directly attributable, not so much to the persons who made it,
but to the incompetent administrative airline procedures which made the mistake possible."