Bast0n,
Hello David. I see some of your innate mischievousness in your posts, and as you are quite new to the debate, I would think you haven't trawled through the whole thread.
You say:
My posts above are not trying to persecute the crew, but rather to say that they made a few tragic errors of judgment in the last minutes of the flight. There, but for the grace of god, so many of of us would have perished in the perilous business of flight if luck had not gone our way. We are all human and make mistakes. Why on earth can this not be acknowledged in this case?
And You'll find no-one here to say you cannot be right. You may well be.
The thrust is that, like all of us who but for the grace of God, might have wound up in this position, the benefit of any doubt must lie with deceased aircrew. The RAF's rules in force at the time had to prove negligence 'beyond any doubt whatsoever'. It failed to do that, and found two fellow professional pilots guilty, effectively of manslaughter, on no more than supposition and theory. No hard evidence exists.