SimonK - would you feel the same if it had been a friend or relative in the back who didn't make it out?
Were your friends or relatives in the back? No, good and glad to hear it - so let’s take emotion out of the argument and discuss it like grown-ups. That’s why crime victims don’t get to set the sentences in this country....much as we’d like to
They made a mistake - some was their fault (most?) and some was organisational. They very very nearly died themselves and a colleague at their company told me how they only just got out of that cockpit with extreme difficulty.
I wonder how many near misses you, me and the other posters here have had over the years which were stopped at some stage by a shout from the Winchop or an intervention from the other pilot and there but for the grace of god go most of us.