Throwing bags for a season at MMA and copy pasting QF media spin is no qualification for much.
However, he may be right. The incompetence of the pilots is likely due the fact that they were not trained to deal with a system they did not know existed on an aircraft so far different form the original design to be unrecognisable.
Of course though, Thomas is neither nuanced in matters of aviation or intellect.
He is simply another mouth piece for a broken corporate model desperately cleaning up the slops ofrom the table of big business.
One might hope the families of the deceased pilots issue proceedings against him and the rag he works for in WA.