VMC or IMC
VictorPilot,
As a newcomer to this intensely active thread, may I suggest that before you make any further comments besmirching the memories of dead aircrew, you at least take the trouble to read all of the previous posts? If you do, you will see that there are clear reasons to suspect that this aircraft may (I put it no more strongly) not have been under control either at, or even for some time before, the point of impact.
Without firm EVIDENCE (not mere supposition) that it was indeed under control, there is not the slightest justification for the damning finding of gross negligence.
Considered comments will, I'm sure, always be welcomed by readers of this thread. Shooting from the hip by a newcomer is not.