Originally Posted by
Dominator2
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Whilst I agree with many of your questions about the airworthiness issues with some of these display aircraft they did not, as far as we know, effect this accident. As mentioned previously, when signing for an aircraft the Captain accepts that aircraft for the flight as planned. In doing so the Captain accepts responsibility. Despite all of the other distractions, AH was, IMHO, responsible for the outcome of this flight
Responsible for what? The airworthiness of the a/c? How is he supposed to know if it is anything other than fully airworthy? That is the default assumption that all pilots have to make unless they know to the contrary. By your reckoning the Captain of the ill fated Afghanistan Nimrod was responsible for the loss of his crew and its grossly unairworthy a/c when it spontaneously exploded after AAR. Utter rubbish. Your 'as far as we know' is at the very core of this argument. What we know now differs from what we were told by the accident report. That has to be considered formally, hopefully by Hill's JR.