Originally Posted by
Maoraigh1
As to the passengers being risk takers, asking the pilot to do risky things is irrelevant, even if the passengers had the knowledge to evaluate aviation risk in that environment. The only thing that matters is the pilot's willingness to take risks. He ran a sight-seeing business, and would be familiar with crazy requests from tourists - and politely refusing them.
You are making an assumption and then a conclusion based on no evidence(a lot of people like to do this as it feels better to assume the pilot did the right thing - emotional reasoning).
Instead, you should think of the polite refusal by the pilot to do a high risk activity as one of several possibilities, as any competent investigator would do.
Of course, my potential scenario is only a theory, but the basic building blocks are there on the passenger side……and certainly a possibility that would be considered by any investigator worth his salt, if there is a lack of evidence proving otherwise.