Sorry chaps but there seems to be huge missing of a few important points here.
SOPS - Hart wasn't found 'guilty of not having sleep' as you assert but guilty of causing death by dangerous driving on 10 counts. See if you can spot the difference.
Lovely Morning - It isn't CRIMINAL to be up all night. But it is CRIMINAL to be up all night and then drive your LandRover/Trailer combination 65 miles in 70 minutes (a time a trained police driver with a police escort could not match) and then nod off and be directly responsible for the deaths of 10 men.
Hart was a 'mobile disaster waiting to happen' according to a member of the invetigation team.
He lied about sleeping when in fact he had spent most of the previous night chatting up some woman. He had already hit the kerb through weariness earlier in his journey and had stopped to have coffee to make himself more alert.
He drove beyond the speed limits in a highly fatigued manner and ultimately robbed children of their fathers, wives of their husbands and mothers of their sons.
Yes he's criminal. Yes he deserves to be punished heavily and no 10 years is not enough. Only one year per death?
Take notes people. You have a choice. It is called personal responsibility and it goes hand in hand with rights. You can't have one without the other.
If you fly KNOWING that you are too fatigued to fly and as a DIRECT result of that cause the death of people then you don't deserve sympathy you deserve prison.
You are professionals. Act professionally. Don't hide behind the 'I was just following orders' line.
Perhaps if one of those killed was connected to you, you'd be less arrogant about the matter.
With 10 years Hart will get off light.
His children still have a Daddy.
Edited for spelling mishtakes.
[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: PowerRanger ]