Right Hand Seat
DaveReidUK says at post #350 that the report “puts an end to the speculation, on here and elsewhere, that the RHS was occupied during the landing.”
The report does not consider that speculation. Its authors have probably squeezed all of the data from the situation. They offer none either to help or to end the speculation - almost.
The report says the RH cockpit seat in the wrecked aircraft was unoccupied. The same was true for any seat that might have been previously occupied by any of the three passengers. At every one of these seats the seat buckle was undone.
In the military aircraft I used to fly, it was virtually obligatory to lock the seat harnesses of any unoccupied seat. Clearly that was not the practice in the Phenom passenger cabin. Is there no impulse at all to strap up the empty flight crew seat in this type of aircraft ? It would be very significant, in terms of the speculation, if that seat buckle would normally have been done up.
It would be reasonable to expect the passengers on this flight, out of common society, to take seats in the “club” group nos 2, 3, 4 and 5. In the end, one of the passengers was positioned as near to the RH cockpit seat as to the nearest of the club seats.
The speculation may be futile but perhaps not entirely groundless.