Mr Purdey
"the question to be answered is whether there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that they ought to have foreseen that their action would in all probability occasion the final event"
If you read the Select Committee evidence and conclusion it makes clear that many of the so called facts were assumptions or hypotheses. We do not know what was going on in the cockpit that evening.
We do not know the cause of the catastrophe; whether it was pilot error, mechanical error, equipment error that led to the crash.
The Select Committee like every enquiry before it came to the same concusion. They were not sure of the exact cause. Therefore, they could not ascribe blame, convenient though it was for the two senior air force officers; whose second guessing the original view of the original RAF inquiry has been soundly criticised ever since.
If you know what was going on in the cockpit that night beyond all doubt, you are the only one on this earth.