Originally Posted by
falcon900
Possibly so, but why was Pilot error not sufficient for their purpose? Why did it have to be gross negligence?
Possibly if it were upheld because it might have helped to scrape egg off the faces of some who should have kept it on the peaks of their SD hats.
Pilots didn’t trust the Mk2. Additionally, this crew had very few hours on it and it was a very different aircraft to that on which they had a lot of experience. As is well known they asked to take a Mk1 instead but it seems that this high profile flight was seen by those in higher authority as a “flagship” mission to show management confidence. When it went wrong in the worst possible way, blame was deflected in the most egregious way possible. Disgracefully so.