Close but not close enough.
Airworthiness is the ability of an aircraft or other airborne equipment or system to operate without significant hazard to aircrew, ground crew, passengers (where relevant) or to the general public over which such airborne systems are flown.
Which is not to be confused with Serviceability.
In my opinion there is no doubt whatsoever that they displayed poor airmanship skills, poor navigation skills and poor CRM, however due to the lack of ADR, CVR etc an opinion is all I can offer.
Surely that is what this is about. It is all about peoples opinions. This entire campaign is about the Opinions of those senior officials who made that error of judgement in calling the aircrew guilty of gross negligence.
If (Big If), If tomorrow, the RAF changed their minds and declared that the pilots were not guilty of "Gross Negligence" BUT that the cause of the accident was Pilot error.....would that make you happy?