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Old 15th Feb 2016, 08:22
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The one mystery that has always intrigued me is that the identity of the co-pilot has, so far as I am aware, never been revealed.

We all know why it was politically important for the original report to point at anything other than systemic issues in the operator, the regulator or the various ANSPs involved in the provision of flight services relating to flights into YNFI (noting the "Y" in YNFI). But what was the imperative for confining the regulatory rogering to Dominic James alone, rather than him and the co-pilot?

Given the fundamental mistakes that Dominic James is supposed to have made, shouldn't the co-pilot have been tapping him on the shoulder and giving him the: "Captain, you must listen to me" speech, with a serious face on? No evident political risk in the co-pilot getting a bit of a regulatory touch up as well.

Anyone able to give any hints about the family and romantic connections of the co-pilot?
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