The hypocrisy of the Silk Air expert witnesses and supervisory management is breathtaking. Just before its failure (pulled CB), the FDR indicated that the stab trim setting was at normal cruise setting of 4.58 units. At the crash site it was found at 2.5 units which is the electrical fwd limit switch. At 0.2 units per second rotation speed, that means someone operated the stab trim for 10 seconds to get to full fwd. That is a dramatic change of trim in a very short time span.
The UK Professor for Silk Air suggested that although the stab trim was found at full fwd electrical setting of 2.5 units it could have possibly rotated itself from 3.08 units to 2.5 units during partial break up. Operative word is possibly.
But then he threw in another red herring and said that possibly, just possibly, there could have been a progressive electrical failure which manifested itself by firstly the mysterious failure to the CVR. Then six minutes later on by another mysterious failure - this time of the FDR (another pulled CB?)
Then guess what! Next was a possible - just possible, the Professor said, failure of the front windscreen that panicked the crew into a premature dive (due human instinct, he said) and that they simply forgot to forgot to close the throttles and extend the speed brakes, then lost control altogether.
Then another mysterious progressive electrical power failure which caused the transponder to fail passing 19500 ft. All these occurrences were served up as possible by the UK Professor and studiously repeated by the French Test pilot (tongue firmly in cheek for sure).
Not content with that, these two expert witnesses then threw in yet another red herring by suggesting that another part of the progressive electrical failure conspiracy may be that a faulty pressurization warning suddenly occurred causing the crew to shove the 737 into a steep dive. Jesus wept!! Can you really believe that this all actually happened in the court room? Well, it did. Ask the media and for once they reported quite accurately.
So the red herrings were trailed across the court room. Very effective delaying tactics so that the other side may run out of money due wasted days of crap.
The plaintiffs had hoped for the truth to come out in this court case, instead it was bleeding obvious (hopefully to the Judge)as each day dragged on, that the Defendants were desperately attempting to dredge up excuses to cover the captain of Silk Air 185 well documented potentially dangerous cowboy flying. Sadly, as events turned out, it may have been lethal flying...
The media reported everything very fairly and accurately, so far.