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For 1950s vintage aircraft it does not make much sense to apply 2018s regulation for flight crew licensing.So it is a simple fact with a difficult truth behind...
Well, it's true that regulations can't prevent accidents, but they're the best thing we have (in addition to currency) to try and insure that the people flying the airplane have some familiarity with what they're doing.
I must say that after reading the preliminary report twice, and looking at what the result was, it's hard to understand why nothing was apparently being done in the cockpit other than to try and maneuver the airplane back to the field.
It's especially baffling in light of the fact that both gentlemen are very experienced A380 captains and one of them is apparently a check airman - a training captain, and they apparently ferried the same type aircraft to Australia previously.
The A380 is a marvelous aircraft, but with all of today's automation and heavy reliance upon flight management systems, do the old, basic flying skills and mindset erode?