You are right of course JEM60.
My post implies otherwise; what I was getting at was he was blamed, vilified by many I'm sure due to his high profile PAX. From what one can learn from an internet search; he was sacked, it took 10 years for him to clear his name, he never flew again, and he didn't live to a ripe old age. Probably not the life he would have chosen given a choice.
He took the blame for years, but the reason was found elsewhere, later. Today, from what the industry learned at his expense, we are safer now.