1. Brian,
I guess you already had him counted as an ally but were you aware that Lord ('on yer bike') Tebbit is quoted in the hot-off-the-press Guild News (..of Air Pilots and Air Navigators) thus? " ...felt they had been unjustly treated ...whatever had happened no one could say it was not pilot error, but (he questioned) condemning the pilots to a judgement that amounted to Manslaughter"
2. J. Purdey
Your post of 5/11 @21.57 defeats your own argument. A "mistake" of which I am, and continue to be, and you are - by your own admission - likewise 'guilty' is only rarely 'Negligence' and NEVER, by definition "Gross Negligence"
{Just to forestall pointless point-scoring: I'm still an active professional, firmly Airlines, however my background (as per two threads and about 1500 posts ago!) includes a period spent piloting flying machines of similar role and performance in the same Theatre and subsequently I transported some bereaved to various memorial events.}