Or you could take the view that you need to learn from other people’s mistakes as you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
There is no doubt that the crew were “attempting to do their best in the circumstances” but unfortunately the options narrowed and they eventually “painted themselves into a corner”.
The salient aspects of the CVR transcript, if ever published, will be a valuable source of material for the CRMIs.
One Q yet to be answered : was the Command gradient a significant factor?