maybe this article will shed some light:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceac127/6604921?login=true
It certainly was a tragic event, and the then Duke surely showed lack of judgement in not letting the pilot do his job properly, but leaving all those people to die when he finally did disembark.
I did not know that no one could disembark until the royalty did, even in an emergency.
The political and religious posturing was pretty evident.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”.
Well researched, a fascinating read. My Dad used to have a set of books of the world’s classic literature. One of them was “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”. His account of that incident may have been in there, but I wasn’t interested in those
books at the time.