Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
The autopsy should settle this...there are characteristic injuries to the hand of the person holding the stick at impact.

Ron Wanttaja
Ron, the so called control surface injuries to the hands and feet are poor indicators of who was actively in control at the moment of the crash. A lot of known pilots do not have them (poor sensitivity) and a lot of non-pilots have them from contact with cockpit structures during crashes (poor specificity). Les Folio addressed this in one of his articles out of the AFIP. I can send you a copy of you like. Basically unless you have a black box or the hand is clenched in cadaveric spasm around the controls, there does not appear to be a reliable indicator as to who was in control.