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Message: [QUOTE="Inger Sheil, post: 248210, member: 139659"] You raise some very good points, Charles. Lightoller wrote of the 'armchair complaint': [indent] There has also been a good deal of ill-informed, ill-founded criticism directed at these men. On the other hand, as you say, they were human and not perfect. I think that it is possible to analyse and critique their performance and find out where they made errors without losing sight of the overall picture and what they did right. Not all criticism directed at them is malicious or ill-founded, and without losing sight of what they did right, and by still keeping comments, observations and questions within the context of their professional and social milieu, it is possible to look at both where they failed and where they succeeded. Only by doing so will we come to understand what role they had in unfolding events. I'm sure that, given the sort of hindsight that we now enjoy, and the luxury of time to assess what happened, they themselves would have made some different choices![/indent] [/QUOTE]