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Chocks Away
* He wasn't "Cleared to Line" until close to a year later, given it was his last sector of a final check, requiring 4 sectors?
It was a route check, not a final check. The three active crew were all checked to line. One training Captain was training another training captain in that role on that flight.
* The same scenario was replicated in the sim, to which everyone failed, even after all the criticism of him?
No I don’t believe that’s true. You may be confusing it with the Hudson River incident were investigators believed there was a chance the A320 could have glided to land at La Guardia airport but failed to achieve this in the simulator.