flipster
Agreed !
Apposite letter in todays Telegraph.
Sir,
"Pilot Error" is a pejorative phrase. It conjures up a picture of an aircraft operating normally until pilots blunder. In fact, pilots are the last link in the chain of events, which may originate from design, maintenance or organisational weaknesses. Usually pilots act to salvage the situation and all is well, but sometimes the outcome is an accident.
If we choose to believe Boscombe Down test pilots, rather than Whitehall - oriented Air Marshals, the Chinook was a seriously flawed aircraft. The criterion for pronouncing negligence by the deceased pilots has not been met.
Signed by Huw Baumgartner