Can it really be 25 years? I Was on the same KingAir initial course as Hugh and was flying that night too. Horrible rough weather, knackered badly maintained aircraft and then it was legal to fly five multi sector nights in a row, single crew under considerable commercial pressure.
The accident was caused by a failure of the diaphragm in the FCU. Something that the company was supposed to have performed a fleet wide inspection of after an identical failure killed another pilot during a go - around manoeuvre at East Midlands just a few weeks previously. Both Hugh and Ron were excellent handling pilots with many more hours experience than a lot of others in the company at that time.
Two great guys who were victims of the culture in those days. I consider myself lucky to have got through unscathed and would love to say that such operators are not around today, however.....
McD.