First Officer Culpability
MrWooby suggests the First Officer should be given a gaol sentence because he was culpable "in that he knowingly allowed the Captain to land in a grossly dangerous condition". He also suggests the F/O should have "Taken Over" control of the aircraft. Just how do you suggest the F/O should have taken control MrWooby? Maybe he could have belted the Captain over the head with a blunt object, or maybe wrestled with the Captain on the controls so that neither had control and everyone perished? The F/O did all he could reasonably have been expected to do in this instance, by expressing his concern with the continued approach and landing, backed up by the aural warnings generated by the aircraft systems. That the Captain ignored both the F/O's concerns, and the automated warnings, is why the Captain was on trial and not the F/O. Pity is the Captain received a mere slap on the wrist and the families of those killed have life sentences.