Seems a few here have lost the point somewhere.
Whatever happened in the air, the main errors, misjudgements, appalling airmanship and blind disregard for basic flight safety happened before the aircraft left the ground. The pilot(may he RIP) carries the can for much of that, as all pilots always will. In the eyes of the professional flying community on here, the people who facilitated the flight, and the current glaringly poor regulations, played a major role in this utterly avoidable accident. Now we (the aforementioned professional aviation community - or at least most of us) hope the ensuing legal action will at the very least provide impetus to a long overdue change to the ambigious regulations and dangers to the unknowing public that flow from them.