coming anyway will land in a field if I have to
What, beyond this astonishingly reckless statement do we need to know to determine the ultimate cause of the accident?
I have walked away from an operator who expected wholesale disregard of normal safety protocols . Although it saved my arse from official grief it cost me the job and much worse left him still in the market with his unsuspecting posh and glossily brochured clients just as exposed. I'll make no implication regarding a connection or otherwise with this incident but go figure.
The cowboys and the chancers (for this is what they are) who operate towards such pressures should have no place in the industry, even though it voluntarily costs decent honest pilots their jobs.
Sure, it isn't easy for honest pilots to object to such pressure as I found out, but it does, ultimately leave them alive and free of guilt.