In conclusion, The maintenance company left the screwdriver in the aircraft, which ultimately caused the crash. Whether or not you believe a military trained pilot would find a screwdriver in his aircraft, leave it there & then go flying is up to you.
Would you also be prepared to lose your wife or husband for £270,000.
I am no lawyer but this looks like pretty circumstantial evidence to me, which would be highly unlikely to hold up in a criminal, rather than a civil case.
No-one would want to lose their wife or husband for £270K, but that is completely not the issue and is a misleadingly emotive statement. The issue is one of negligence or not.
As Mixed UP says, you may be upset, but this is a legitimate subject for discussion and, as I said in my previous post, I speak as someone who has already been the subject of a negligence case and fully expect to be the subject of several more in the source of my career. We are facing an epidemic of negligence cases, often based on circumstantial evidence, and that is a worthy subject for debate.
QDM