I do not know that I need to have an opinion on this one Chris. I think it is a pretty hard one to get right. On the face of it, it looks like a minor error, which had catastrophic consequences. It may be that the court felt that it was more important to make the airline tighten up its working practices than to mete out exemplary punishment. Because a terrible disaster happened, we do not have to assume that someone was either negligent or callous.