Dan Air were only responding to a technique used by the RAF who shut down 2 engines whilst loitering on ops over the Atlantic in their Nimrods whose airframe was based on the venerable Comet and had the same engines.
Yes, however the last I heard, Dan-Air didn't fly Nimrods, didn't loiter for hours at a time, and were a civvy operator, carrying civvy passengers...all whilst not being part of the RAF.
Ergo, thinking flawed at Dan-Air management level, nothing more nor less.
As regards the accident in question, there can be only one conclusion, the operating crew stuffed it up, big time.
It is the
crews responsibility to know where they are,
especially in an area of known questionable ATC services, at the time.
True then, true today.
There is positively no getting around this.
IF an aircarrier crew cannot operate to rather basic standards with regard to situational awareness, accidents happen, just as in this case.
Ones defending the concerned Dan-Air operating crew might well feel sadness at their demise, and quite rightfully so, however, there is simply no other way to say it....the concerned crew simply were not up to the task, on that particular day.
Period.