Caz,
I will attempt to answer some of your more recent questions.
No, I have never picked up a new aircraft. Many though from Marshalls and the like after majors.
If you read Burke he mentions UCFM's, (plural) and Power Interupts, (plural), so a total of at least four incidents.
As many as twenty. I still don't know.
Accident v Incident. I still don't know.
Could these events have been a factor in the crash? Read Chug 5161 link Report, para 170. In the opinion of an expert witness, Burke, they could have been.
Read Cows, 5146. Burden of proof. Until you now disprove the Burke statement you have failed to reach the requirements.
To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in 3207 that states:
"Officers of Air Rank, and very important Staff Officers may disregard these orders."
This applies to JP and Jock Craig also.
Cows, it is "almost impossible", but not quite to show negligence by deceased aircrew. Somewhere back in the distant past I brought up the case of a Lightning pilot who carried out an unauthorised Air Display off the North East coast (circa 1971). He crashed and died. Not only was he not authorised, his authoriser had forbidden him to do it. (In front of several witnesses).
Disobeying a direct order can do it.