FOCA employees, who were manning the control truck on May 1, Alan Woolard, director; Eddie Baker, producer; and Andy James, video switcher, testified at today's hearing.
They stated that it was pure coincidence that the videotape had ended just prior to the fatal crash.
The decision to switch the camera shot coming from Senna's car to that of Japanese driver Ukyo Katayama was taken approximately 10 seconds before, as Senna was leading the race and there was nothing of interest ahead of him.
But in fact the next shot on the tape was from Gerhard Berger's car not Katayama's, the chief prosecutor said, and it too showed an empty track. "What, if I might say so, is the point of the shots if they have not been tampered with?" he asked.
The wrong button was pressed, and that action mistakenly selected pictures from the camera on Berger's car and created the interference, which explains the 14 seconds of indistinct pictures between the last shot from Senna's camera and the first from Katayama's, was the given justification
