FTDK:
Im sure you are correct much better to go in anywhere level then upside down. Why second guess the deceased. The point was wasting our time and money with drug and alcohol testing because of one accident which was not even proven to be because of drugs or alcohol.
You could have a huge 3 day bender. Then dont drink for 15 hours and blow .00 but the fact of the mater is you may be way to hungover / fatigued to fly. The testers will not be able to test for this. But is closer to the facts of this accident then the pilot downing 4 schooners and going flying and crashing which there is still no evidence that this has ever happened in Australia. ATSB made a recommendation and for some bizar reason this seems to be the one they chose to act on. Not the 100's of others that would prevent problems. It was all about a media beat up 4 years ago.