CM and others like-minded: I was a simple Met man. I watched the news that dreadful day, doubly dreadful because I am a Sussex man and know Shoreham and Lancing college well. Indeed as a lad I remember Miles Aviation and the old 1930s main building.
So the simple ex Met man sees an aeroplane fly into the ground on a perfectly good weather day. It turns out that it kills and maims many people on a road that he knows well.
What is he to make of it in his simple, ill-informed way? Pilot error, or unserviceability or a combination of both? I don't think many contributors above are attributing the tragedy to unserviceability alone.
So to my simple mind the matter resolves itself into determining the degree of culpability, does it not?
Just asking.