Hypotheses versus Facts
JP
There you go again quoting the AMs' hypotheses as if they were "facts". If indeed, having changed waypoints (which MOD has agreed in writing would also normally mean an intent to immediately change course) they continued in a fully serviceable aircraft to fly directly at the Mull then as well as being barking mad they would have been negligent. I am certain that they were not barking mad so maybe something went wrong - as an example read the AAIB report - it certainly does not rule out a pre-crash control restriction. Neither you nor I will ever know what happened, and even the AOCinC said this. Just for that reason, let alone the ever mounting evidence under FOI of a lack of airworthiness, the verdict is wrong. To claim that you know they were negligent is, I suggest, a comment on your own ability to make a fair and even ethical judgement.
JB