Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
I can almost bet you, if two ab-initio background pilots were in the cockpit, the outcome would have been very different
What makes you think that? An underlying hatred of ab-initio pilots and jumping on the bandwagon that they “crack under pressure”?
Most pilots flying airliners today did come through ab-initio schemes. That particular airline itself has run ab-initio schemes for over 50 years which have produced hundreds of successful pilots, Captains, Chief Pilots and Training Captains on aircraft as large as the A380.
The incident didn’t take extreme skills or knowledge to recover from. The crew did a great job, but I’m sure any well trained crew (ab-initio background or not) would have successfully handled this incident.