Originally Posted by
gearlever
Austrian Wings certainly thinks so. The fifth paragraph of the cited article translates, more or less, to:
"After the incident, one name was repeatedly cited in [airline] industry circles and in the Czech media: Pavel Vesely. [Vesely] is the Director Flight Operation of the airline, suggesting that the term 'chief pilot,' which the [Smartwings] spokeswoman has [provided?] to Czech media, is accurate."
There are probably better translators of German here, but I checked my version with a couple of online translation sites and it seems pretty close.