Originally Posted by
Grizzly Bare
First iteration:
"Sorry, our documentation is not yet in place, so we can't legally fly yet."
That night everyone is still alive.
Professional airline pilots know when they are legally allowed to fly, and know when they can't. Many thousands of birthdays/anniversaries have been missed because crews have reached duty limits and can't fly home in time - even though they desperately wanted too. QF pilots would not deliberately bust mere duty hours to get home, and yet this flight happened in Africa. This is so much a worse violation. An attitude of "I don't have the legal authorisation to fly this airplane in this country on this registration, but what-the-hell I'll violate the law and do it anyway, it's only South Africa - not like it's a real country and a real CAA" by any chance?