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I find this acquittal quite incredible. What is 'cognitive impairment' even supposed to mean in this context?
Oliver Schick-
That G-force blackout/redout is now a legal excuse for pilot error? Even if one, with all of one’s years of experience, should have known what one was doing wasn’t safe or adviseable in the first place? Allegedly.
Or we’ve had enough of experts, such that a jury trial can overrule the findings of a report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
(I am equally stunned by the verdict)
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What is 'cognitive impairment' even supposed to mean in this context?
Apparently the pilot says he must have blacked out or something in the display and argued that he cannot be responsible for his actions or lack of them.
Seems legit
It's like The Pilot Is Never At Fault thing from that Air France piece.
c00ps
Howard
Shoreham Airshow pilot acquitted over crash deaths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47495885
Presumably this opens the way up for private prosecutions?
Kinda reminds me of those cases where a pedestrian or whatever has been killed by someone driving a vehicle and despite conditions being favourable and there being nothing wrong with the motor somehow the driver is found to have behaved just fine despite the obvious fact that something went wrong enough for someone going about their daily business to now be dead.
A bit mind boggling