Emily wrote:

You know, I'm not even going to dignify this with another post after
this. Fine, blame two people, one of whom is dead. I'm not going to
join you. I'm glad that you've never made such a mistake, and I hope
you never do, but keep in mind that it does happen, and it COULD happen
to you.

I agree with you. There is clearly human factors considerations that
investigators will certainly address. Duh, it's quite apparent that an
error was made, what will take time is to find out what factors
contributed to that error.

Keep in mind you're dealing crotchety monday-morning-quarterback
"experts" who can say they always do everything perfectly for the eight
times a year they fly their 152 rental around the pattern on a Sunday
afternoon. Unlike folks like yourself and other professional pilots,
they have no ideas of the realities that the job places on decision
making, such as schedules, fatigue, time of day, weather, airfield
familiarity, inop equipment, miscommunication, etc.

Brad