Originally Posted by
Double Back
The report does not state why the crew did not/could not obtain a suitable validation, I am sure they tried!. If this was because of a missing check flight, I swallow my words, but they might not have gotten even close to this point. Instead the report mentions the missing licensing several times. But no word WHY it was missing...
IF they tried to obtain a validation, but couldn't or didn't, and flew the flight knowing they were technically unlicensed makes it worse than simply thinking, or assuming as the case may be, that the CAA blindly accepted their Australian qualifications. The report doesn't seem to go into either their attempts to obtain such a validation, or their reasoning for crewing the flight without it, either knowingly or not.