I am sure that most if not all of the N/sea guys on here and most other rotory pilots have found themselves in a compromised position where with skill luck and judgment they have " got away" with it. Unfortunately the crew of this particular flight did not have luck, other than the fact that everybody survived, on their side that evening.
Night deck landings have to be probably the most difficult aspect of N/Sea flying and i hope that from the subsiquent enquiry that we are all able to learn from the events of that evening.
As technology improves the human race will struggle to keep up and human factors will now become more of an issue than that of reliability of the A/C.
T4