What's the inside angle on admitting liability like this? Keep it out of the courts and therefore no discovery and depositions that become public record?
Precisely. There is dubious flight hour qualification and going into a corridor at night.
And possible failure to adjust altimeter after a storm pressure front has passed, before takeoff.
I think the older veteran copilot is not forceful enough when he noticed as being too high.
Doesn't help that ATC was dismissive as well either due to ignorance or misunderstanding.
Regretfully, a veritable comedy of errors. Better to settle ouy of court than set a precedent.
It could be IQ, cultural-specific, polarized against authority, much of which deserve monitoring.
I do not think it is a cost-effective way for working population to fund this "freestyle" living unless society gets something from the idles.
Otherwise, like a professor giving out highest grade of a student to rest of the class, that too shall normalizes ...." at the lowesr level.