tucumseh
"the pilots are merely at the bottom of this food chain"
An unfortunate choice of words given the blatent disregard of ASI's, GASO's and Command Catering Instructions regarding pre and in flight catering for that days tasking.
When they took off on that fatal sortie none of the crew had partaken of a meal (as opposed to the odd chocolate biscuit) for at least 10 hours and in the case of the Captain some 22 hours.