Thank you Absolutely Fabulous and I can see how you read that and you are absolutely correct.
What I was trying to say was that the remote chance of a control failure, being immediately preceded by a CVR failure that would therefore not record anything about the second failure, regardless of whether it resulted in the tragedy, was 1 in a billion.
In other words, I was trying to say it was extremely unlikely that the MI 185 disaster was due to mechanical causes and that if we wanted to learn from it to avoid other disasters, such as the Garuda one also being currently discussed on this forum, then we had to look at the pilots rather than being distracted by the virtually impossible chance of it having been mechanical.
So having derermined as definitely as it is humanly possible that it was the pilots and not the aircraft, the next question is which pilot?
And we do have to look at both pilots, othewise the disaster will never be explained and nothing will be learnt from it to avoid others.