Gentlemen
1. I have been flying since 1976 (including SA)
2. Been flying the airshow circuit (including in SA) since 1982
3. I know most of the people involved in this
4. The label I'm new here only means I forgot my old username and password.
5. Kotakato......not sure what case you rest or how you think my comment helps you rest it.
So perhaps you may want to revisit some of your assumptions.
For the record the posts I have scorned are those that express more of an opinion about the writer and his/or her genius/experience/the number of times he has flown that route etc that anything else.
I may not have the experience of the professors who have told us how clever they are.......but I have learned that in aviation (as with many walks in life) just when you start to expound on how silly someone else is, or how bad their mistake is it will come back to bite you.......
This was avoidable to be sure, and someone made a mistake to be sure.......but then isnt that true of just about every aviation accident?