I might be way off the mark, but why are they holding the felon responsible for the deaths of those in the helicopters?
Their deaths are a careless tragedy, but not something that he was in control of. They were there because of him - that much is true - but it was their own lack of skill / bad judgment / bad luck that they hit eachother. Blaming the felon seems more a way to keep the masses happy than any form of actual justice...
It very much reminds me of the stories of a busy duel-carriageway local to me. Boy-racers drive up and down it too quickly, every now and then someone loses control - hits a tree - and dies. In the last year there have been 4 deaths on the road. All at night. 1, a girl on her mobile phone coming back from a pub. 2, an old man (and I mean 70+) trying to cross the road, the other two were a 17 year old and his friend in the car - the 17 year old had passed his test 2 weeks before the crash.
Local newspapers want the road closed and are calling it dangerous. I think they're missing the point and that it was the bad judgment / luck of others that they died - not the fault of the road. So it is with this crash - it is not the fault of the helicopter manufacturers, the police, the felon the police were chasing - it's the actions of the men in those helicopters that led them to hit eachother. It's a tragedy, but if there must be blame (and these days, it seems there must) then it lies with the pilots of those choppers.
