ZFT - by those terms, this was a responsibility and, other than grounding the pilot (which wouldn't prevent other pilots making similar mistakes)how would you suggest this is 'corrected'?
I don't have all the facts to do a root cause analysis but as you correctly state, grounding the pilot would not prevent a similar occurrence, however from what little we do know, I would suggest it was more a process issue with the incorrect positioning of the 'on ground' machine and if there were procedures in place to ensure correct positioning every time, then this thread would not be running?