Fitter
Thank you Baston for another nail in the coffin of the totally unjustifiable verdict of Wratten and Day.
I think that is most unfair. I have been consistent all along that "gross negligence" is not a fair outcome.
Before the days of CVRs and data recorders there were many crashes and no one knew for sure what happened in the final stages of flight - but still pilot error was often the result of the deliberations. In this tragic case all the evidence to my mind for the last few minutes looks very much like that. Yes, I know they were truly competant pilots but the end result of whatever happened in the cockpit during the flight ended with impact with the ground. Even the best of us cock it up sometimes.
Of course the verdict of "gross negligence" should be overturned but let us all put away the rose tinted spectacles and face up to a few KNOWN facts.