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Old 11th Mar 2017, 09:58
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Lemain
 
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terry holloway -- The AAIB report is inconclusive. Loads of very experienced fast jet pilots have put forward suggestions as to what caused the incident. If there was just one cause? Usually accidents (road, rail, air, sea) are a combination; a sequence of events. But not always. Accident investigators don't necessarily find all the sequential causes. For example, hiring the wrong pilot might be the first 'error' or contributory factor. Putting the wrong oil in a gear train might be the next...and often more factors like an alarm clock failing to wake early enough, leaving the pilot stressed.

Totting up the views expressed here on this thread we seem to have 2/3 majority who think this was pilot error. The majority is very possibly right. But it's by no means "beyond all reasonable doubt".

To blacken the name of the pilot - to himself, his friends and family - after an inconclusive report (medicals seem to have been under-investigated or at least under-reported) by implying the pilot did this for his own benefit and ego seems to me like a judgement based on fancy rather than fact.
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