Sam
Thanks for your off-list message.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to delete a message that you don't
like until you've read it. The thread started as you say along an
interesting line. Then for you to wander off into gory detail was
difficult to predict. Are you suggesting perhaps that I should
delete *anything* that you have written? In this case, you are
right: I am interested in the cause of the accident, not in the
details of how the crew acted before they went horrifyingly to their
(then unavoidable) deaths.
I deal with deaths of friends or colleagues all the time (well
perhaps once every 18 months) in my profession of military pilot. At
no stage am I or my living colleagues interested in whether our
friends were screaming milliseconds before they hit the ground. That
is how I construed the line of your message. Of course, we are
always interested in any of their actions that led to the accident -
perhaps to see if there would be a way we would avoid that in the
future... even our Boards in Inquiry in the Royal Air Force are not
published in every detail.
Please forgive me if the the gory detail is not what you were
relating. However, I cannot see what possible use to anyone it is to
know that the girl on the flight had unstrapped and that the others
had not panicked - as if your acquaintance would know anyhow. His
story sounded like gossip or conjecture as you related it, and that
is not for us on the List to have to judge in my opinion.
I am sorry that we disagree on this, but I shall not dwell on it further.
Best Wishes
Chris
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