It is quite outrageous and irresponsible for the BBC to state that the accident was caused by a 'maintenance blunder' and that the AAIB report 'blamed' anyone or anything. Typical journalistic rubbish. And how typically 'SHOCK, HORROR - NUCLEAR MATERIAL WAS ON BOARD DOOMED JET!' gutter journalism about an aspect which had absolutely no bearing on the accident
The fault existed on the previous flight and was handled correctly by the crew. That crew also performed in-flight fault-finding and gave a comprehensive debrief to the maintenance personnel at STN. The cause of the fault was incorrectly diagnosed by the maintnenance personnel and the ac was dispatched with the fault remaining. The accident crew did not respond to the failure indications; there were several distractions and pre-occupations during a busy period of the departure but, unlike on the previous sector, the Commander did not hand control to his First Officer.
I used the initial report from the accident to set up a similar series of events for VC10 pilots during routine simulator training in simulated IMC. Although the attitude system is simpler, the basics remain the same: Compare both primary attitude indicators with the standby and ensure the pilot with the serviceable attitude indicator immediately takes control.
FLY THE JET, then follow the SID, then bother with the nagging Air Traffickers on the wireless. Incidentally, none of the pilots I gave the fault to crashed the simulator.