Originally Posted by
Richard Dangle
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.
Absolutely
Richard Dangle! This particular flight should never have happened. That said, the rather chilling thought is that it sounds, given the CO element, it may well have caused an accident/incident to someone at some other time unless the leak was picked up and sorted.
However, as well as CO appearing to be, possibly, the last link in the chain leading to this particular accident and the sad deaths of two people, what it ironically also revealed as a by-product, was a completely different can of worms involving one of them (as well as some people on the ground), namely, the legal basis for the flight itself and, quite probably, a host of other similar flights before it over the years.
No-one gloats over the death of people whatever the cause, particularly those of us who have lost several friends/workmates to flying accidents over the years. A majority of the discussion centres on why the flight took place at all. No-one knows exactly how/why the last few minutes played out as they did - some assessment has taken place based on ATC comms and Radar plots etc. To an extent, that is academic. However, much more of the focus of this thread has been on the "cottage industry" of such flights. You can read my views in earlier posts.
alphaman sums it up well - "A horrible tragic mess all round."