Cloud building !!
[QUOTE=Easy Street;10941581]Can someone explain to me what motivation the CAA might have for wanting to influence the findings of further investigation into CI? There does not seem to be an obvious equivalent to the “protect the retired Air Marshals” allegation associated with Mull, etc. The CAA’s regulation of display supervision has already been discredited; what else could it be hoping to protect? A finding of CI would surely take attention *away from* airworthiness matters, if indeed there is anything to be diverted from.
If you remove all the issues of a 'trial' and merely investigated how this accident happened under a CAA regulated system, it would throw up many items that were less than satisfactory, and certainly did not even follow the system as envisaged by the authority. The common factor in all this was the authority itself therefore the CI input if nothing else was a convenient distraction from the rather more relevant route of how the system itself was implemented. Having been provided with a suitable 5/8 of cloud cover in court, increasing this only diverts attention away from more tangible evidence. Who benefits from that !!. Mistakes/Errors happen so the original CPS case was not appropriate, and should not have singled out the Pilot. Let us hope that the Coroner looks at the wider picture.