The other angle of the badge of pilot error is in accidents which cause death either with people in the ground or in the air!
It implies that the pilot caused those deaths yet the mantle of pilot error which is so broad yet so damning
I pilot who does something stupid which is also classified as reckless is the worst while a pilot dealing with multi aircraft failures who does his best but fails comes in at the other end of the spectrum
Yet they could both be classified as pilot error )
In the eyes of the authorities it is still not clear to me what classifies as pilot error ?
I could have a battery overheat situation which could be contained! If I failed to do so and the aircraft caught fire is that pilot error ? Just an example of the scope of pilot or human error
Pace