Makes for difficult reading, condolences to all.
I have often thought over the years when browsing the CAA reports that ‘low hours on type’ were often the critical factor.
So many times for example we read ‘Commanders experience 12,000 + hrs (of which 7 were on type)’ etc. Yet here we have an experienced aviator who came to grief with probably more P51 hours than many of his WW2 forebears could have ever achieved before their de-mob. Reading on, an 18,800 hr captain with over 1500hrs on type who concedes that a handling error was to blame for his Tiger Moth having an incident and yet on the other hand the case of Miss Velma…………. Commanders experience 21,000 hrs (9 of which were on type) who executes a flawless textbook emergency landing.
It probably goes to show that in what ever we do, when its misplaced we are all just a puff of wind away from glory or disaster. Hats off to you all Gents.