I dont usually comment on air accidents but as a guy looking in from outwith the mil I feel compelled to say a few things...
Firstly - My heart goes out to those grieving families. It was a terrible and needless loss of life.
Secondly - That young fellow that survived, is wheelchaired, and just been through the judicial process and taken his conviction - While I cant condone HIS PART in this tradgedy, I feel that he has been through the mill and will be mentally tortured for life by his own part in a few moments of stupidity, How many of us have done stupid and potentialy fatal things? - avaiation related or not - and got away with it. This Fellow didnt get away with it and made his plea in court acccordingly. Had the Pilot survived I wonder if things would have been different?