It might take a number of years for the complete forensic investigation into this catastrophe to run its full course. For instance, the last report into the Sea World helicopter crash in Queensland, Australia, again in 2023, which claimed the lives of 4 folks and injured 9 others, was solely launched in April this yr.
A HISTORY OF SPECULATION – AND VILIFICATION
There’s a lengthy historical past of undue and dangerous public hypothesis in regards to the attainable causes of a airplane crash.
For instance, because the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014, hypothesis has swirled about whether or not chief pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was answerable for the catastrophe and the deaths of the opposite 238 folks on board.
This has deeply upset his sister, Sakinab Shah. In 2016, she advised CNN she feels her brother is a “scapegoat” she should defend.
Equally, the pilots of the British Midlands accident close to Kegworth in 1989, by which 47 folks died, have been additionally publicly vilified.
The pilots, who survived the crash, have been skilled however misidentified which engine had failed, and shut down the flawed one. They have been extensively criticised within the press for the error, tarnishing their reputations, dropping their jobs, and little doubt inflicting extra stress to their households.
