Retired judge Lord Philip, sitting in private along with a panel of three Scottish politicians, has spent nine months reviewing the accident.
He concluded that: "Because of the limited amount of evidence available, the investigating board were unable to determine the cause of the accident, and so concluded that it was impossible to find that the pilots had been negligent to any degree.
My interpretation is that it does not mean that it
wasn't pilot error, just that if it was pilot error then there was no evidence that any of their actions were deliberate and therefore they could not have been negligent.
But I agree great result for justice.
As an aside is there any update on the air traffic controller debacle?