if you would respond to my questions about how you prioritise causes, I might be able to agree with you (or not).
But until you say how you prioritise causes, and can demonstrate conclusively to people that your characterisation follows from your criterion, I can propose from experience that there is not the slightest hope that your suggestion will become "indisputable" any time soon.
PBL
I support this provocation to all the posters. Unless and until those proposing blame and/or corrective action for this accident address your issues above, This thread will stay endlessly mired in speculative issues.
I can even guess who can and very likely will dispute it in public. TAM's insurance company.
PBL
on this last point, the insurance carrier really doesn't have much to say other than to argue among themselves as members of consortiums carrying the insurance for all potential parties. In the end they will simply apportion percentages of the final setllements of all claims.