Actually my opinion is shaped as it is because I see the trial as an extension of the indictment. The prosecutor created a very limited playing field by ignoring significant factors glossed over in the BEA report. So in the end we are left with a couple of poor sods that were coerced into bad decisions decades ago and a convenient scapegoat (Continental) while ignoring the underlying operational transgressions and shortcomings that may very well be the root cause of the tragedy.