Get off the moral outrage bus. From the Snowdonia thread:
Before they identified the people involved, I had in my mind (when they said businessman) someone in their mid-fifties with a PPL and his own helicopter as someone who might think taking that route with such a poor forecast and few options would be an acceptable course of action.
Sadly I seem to have been proven right and it looks (with a very small percentage of another cause) like another CFIT in poor weather in a private helicopter....How may more before people take notice and learn from others mistakes???
Surely "bluntly voicing what can only be an opinion (sometimes clouded by pre-conceptions and learned bias)" was simply unhelpful and not very respectful on that thread, Crab?
And that was within the first two days of the accident. The hypocrisy would be staggering if it wasn't so predictable.
This accident, tragic as it is, also looks like a "CFIT in poor weather".