safetypee:
Those who wish to prosecute ‘deviant’ crews without all of the evidence (because many cognitive aspects are not available), should consider what aspects of safety could be learnt from alternative viewpoints. Try being the defense lawyer.
Hindsight is indeed 20/20. The report is quite thorough and provides more than sufficient information to conclude that the captain did not conduct the flight properly.
Had the captain survived no doubt we would have been afforded the opportunity to hear the criminal case as presented by both the prosecution and defense. My experience with defense lawyers is their objective is to get their client off, not present the truth in a court of law.
As to your complex science and its
criticism of the NTSB, you need to take that up with them. My simple, flight operations oriented mind agrees completely with their analysis and conclusions with Comair 5191. The papers to which you refer brush over the large amount of non-pertinent conversation between those two crew members.