Sillert V.I.
If he'd flown away, we could have learned everything we've learned from this, and probably much more, without any of the tragic consequences. It does beg the question of why we didn't seemingly learn it from the Typhoon incident.
I think it important to consider that whilst we might, we probably wouldn't.
This incident has been turned inside out ONLY because the aircraft hit the ground. The engineering deficiencies have been discovered because a crash made the AAIB go looking at the books. Why didn't the CAA go looking at the books before the crash?
We seem to get this every time there is a fatal impact. The investigation turns up something that was plain to see, if only it had been looked at beforehand.
What is it that the CAA do, apart from issue invoices?