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Old 12th Jan 2007, 23:09
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That's why accident reports as a rule are findings of fact rather than attempts to apportion blame. While you do get the occasional incident where gross negligence on the part of a single party becomes the primary cause, those are few and far between.

As it happens, this case was not one of those. To imply this was a case of corporate and political collusion to blame a pilot, as quite a few on here have, is disingenuous in the extreme. The pilot's actions were down to his interpretation of the training he had been through, the aircraft did not behave as he expected, and he ended up in a dangerous situation probably before he even realised it.

Those were the findings in a nutshell - no blame, no insinuation of negligence or incompetence, just holes in the cheese lining up with tragic results.
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