NoVANav:-
Most accidents are due to mistakes by the aircrew.
Yes, BoIs find the same thing on this side of the pond. Mind you, witnesses with evidence of serious airworthiness shortcomings tend not to be called before the board despite volunteering themselves to do so. Tends to skew the outcome somewhat!
Corrona, I should have added in my reply to you that many of the facts stated in the link that dervish and I posted were included by Haddon Cave in his report, yet strangely he attributed the start date to 1998 even though the evidence was dated between 1987-96, which he bizarrely characterised as a Golden Era of Airworthiness! Now why should he do that, and why should the very foundation of the MAA be based on such contradictions?