robroy:
I maybe would not say this if it was my family, but unfortunately it could happen to any of us.
How many times a day are you on auto pilot, where you pass an MSA for example and have no recollection of doing so.
It just takes a moment of lapse of concentration when the [zb] can hit the fan in various degrees of seriousness, in this case it happened to be worse case scenario.
I totally agree with this.