Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
The pilot in command is responsible for the airplane. Blames substantial damage on the copilot. The copilot is dead. The only narrative is the PIC, who is ultimately on the hook for substantial damage. The only person who can say otherwise or give any further insight is the SIC. Who is dead.
The narrative puts everything on the SIC. Who is dead.
Convenient, for the PIC.
And yet putting the damaged aircraft on autopilot and going into the back and wrestling the man out the aft door seems sort of unlikely too.
What are you suggesting? That the PIC made the initial bad landing and that he was so concerned about his own career that he was willing to kill the copilot? The PIC can’t really escape blame regardless since he WAS the Pilot in Command.