If the weather was marginal, then everyone around was flying anyway. Do you see a problem with that, or does it only become a problem when there is an accident, and then only a problem for the pilot involved? If the pilot was flying at below minimums, where was his operational support?
What is most indicative of the manner in which the company operated, is the fact that they did not know where the aircraft was going, and did not report it to SAR according to the procedures in their Operations Manual once they determined that it was missing, but instead waited an additional three hours.
That failure certainly cost my husband his life, and may also have cost the lives of the four other men. They did all escape the aircraft. The owner's log-road building company had already been found responsible for a death due to poor maintenance and safety practices by Worksafe BC and the BC Coroner Service. What does that tell you?