JamieMaree:
What do you conspiracy theorists not understand?
He ditched an aircraft into the clean causing a number of others on the aircraft life enduring injuries.
Is not the Captain the final arbiter of the disposition of the aircraft and its passenger?
Even If all the conspiracy theories have a basis, were any of these people in the aircraft let alone flying it?
Isn’t that what captains of aircraftget paid for?
Managing the aircraft to be safe all of the time?
Sometimes bad luck inhibits this and sometime events conspire to defeat this aim.
Whats not understood? Not much.
He ditched an aircraft causing life long injuries? True, but they got out with their lives which is regarded as an unusually good outcome.
Is not the Captain the final arbiter? Yes and no. He is the final arbiter once airborne but still has to rely on ground based services for weather and Air traffic control. It is arguable that these services may have failed him.
Were any of these people on the aircraft? They don't have to be on the aircraft to contribute to the accident, see above.
Isn't that what he is paid for? He is not paid to be infallible. He is paid to do the best he can to complete the mission with the equipment and resources available.
Managing the aircraft to be safe at all times? That is the general idea, one should never run out of safe options. However the available options are a function not just of the pilot, but of the performance of the aircraft, the mission required by the owner and the service quality available to the pilot including weather forecasting, airtraffic control, the required planning procedures of the employer and the aviation regulations themselves. these things are supposed to work together to guarantee a safe operation. They didn't this time. That is why we are waiting for the report.
To put it another way, this is not an open and shut case about a silly pilot.