Originally Posted by
RoyHudd
Dear Lord, EK's record is looking worse by the day. Is their Training Department accountable for their near-catastrophes in recent times?
In the JFK incident two captains were sacked, one in the left seat, one on the jumpseat. The other pilots in cockpit kept their jobs on double secret probation. The manager of training was fired.
As a (former?) EK 777 driver predicted at the time:
Originally Posted by
fliion
I really feel for this crew - not because of the error they made (Unlike some) - but because they knew in those moment after of “uh oh - we screwed up” - that while they were preparing to come around and fly the 22 approach - they were fubar’d, pending upgrade gone, final warning coming, safety Dept position in question, Augmentors interrogation on PM’ing, possible downgrade, possible termination - yada yada yada.
The big one will come here not because of the error, but because of the cloud of punitive measures that are coming, as a crew tries to fix errors- because they know that with Fleet , unlike with a good trainer, resilience in getting it on the ground - will be met with swift, warped justice
Tragic