Agreed but if you read the background to this story his Orient Thai Airline was flying in breach of many ICAO regulations and was banned from European airspace. I actually paxed witn Orient Thai from Phuket to Gatwick many years ago when they were operating old 747’s which are now abandoned in Bangkok,Hong Kong and other locations. There was a long running thread on Pprune some years ago on the Phuket crash.
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One-Two-Go crash report released