Crunching Numbers presents chart of switches, post 2192
All too easy to toggle the wrong switch on a panel like that. Horrifying.
Are these four identical switches the ones incorrectly set? It rang alarm bells for Lonewolf 50 in his long post number 2304. Also Art of Flight in post 2323 calls for a redesign of the switch panel. Gouli in two posts, 2388 and 2402 also deplores a panel arrangement of "identical switches all in a line"
Whether or not the accident is blamed on the switches, somebody had better get busy and redesign that panel! The sense of touch remains when it is difficult to see, or to hear. Make some longer, fatter, curved, whatever it takes to make them distinct from each other.
I hope the AAIB would make such a recommendation.
Another question arises; the posts say goggles for night vision may make it harder to read the panels. Do chopper pilots wear gloves?