Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
Yes.... but his bus didn't have an engine failure part way through the roundabout!
He caused the accident by putting the bus in a position that provided no margin for error. It was not an intentional act to cause the bus to roll, but his actions leading up to the situation were.
In the Pilots case it was exactly the same, we are taught in single engine aircraft to be mindful of our flight path and encouraged to consider engine failure during all phases of flight. He chose to put the aircraft into a situation where safe landing options were only achievable with an extreme maneuver, and lost control as a result. Therefor he is in exactly the same boat as the bus driver. It is a cop out to say that your only option to avoid crashing into the sea was to fling it around to the beach. The engine failure just exposed his lack of safe margins when flying, no different to tailgating and then blaming the brakes when you don't stop in time.