"...With the benefit of hindsight."

How many times have we heard that formula used as an excuse for people who have failed to do things that they should have recognised at the time as the right things to do, or done things which at the time were clearly the wrong things to do at the time?

From then BBC story on this: "Mr Hatfield admitted the company was told within 45 minutes of the first report that only one person had survived, but decided to delay any announcement until they were certain of the facts."

It pretty obviously wasn't "the benefit of hindsight" that was lacking here. It was common humanity, common sense and integrity.