Inexperienced pilots were rostered on same flight

The night before the accident, the aircraft operated a night cargo charter, from Belfast Aldergrove to Edinburgh, to Inverness and back to Aldergrove.

The sectors were operated by a different flight crew to the crew involved in the accident. The cargo operation required the removal of passenger seats prior to flight.

The aircraft arrived back at Aldergrove at 5.10am where passenger seats were re-installed by the flight crew who had operated the cargo flight.