Originally Posted by
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.... , but felt the FAA and NTSB dudes did well.
From the reports it seems that the FAA guy did his best to handle some very "leading" and biased questions. Given that FAA has in the past raised issues of international standards (as also has EASA, frankly - both have banned various "third world" carriers and countries at various times) he could hardly turn round now and say "No, all foreign pilots and jurisdictions are fine, it must be all Boeing's fault." The fact that he did agree that there were issues with foreign standards doesn't, to me, mean he agreed it's all the pilots' fault. But as usual any high profile news story is both politicized and reduced to very simplistic "us versus them" type of storylines.