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."
Semantics. Still saying the crew had no say in where the aeroplane was going, which is patently ridiculous, the point is not who made the mistake, but why was it not picked up in the hours the flight was proceeding to the ice.