"Thanks for that Sky Sports, that's genius, we hadn't thought of that.
But he didn't, did he? He wasn't a risk taker, so why did he do it??
I don't have the answer, but knowing Dave well, I don't THINK he would have been so cavalier in his flying. SOMETHING made him feel that all was ok. ... It doesn't exonerate the burden on the pilot, but it could start to explain why he did it."
Well said. (Sorry, I don't know how to quote but that is the perfect answer to Well I'm a really good pilot and I would never do x y and z".)