I thought I would refresh my knowledge of the operator but reading the website of an operator at a time like this is an extremely strange experience with a whole range of emotions and thoughts. Just the company strapline “As a pilot you cannot buy experience; as our customer, you can” provokes a wide gamut of emotions but mainly sorrow.
Sorrow for those directly involved in this event, sorrow for the other employees in the company, sorrow for those in the industry that do a good job and feel sick to the core when reading of incidents such as 'LBAL, CRST, WIWI, N72EX, but most of all, sorrow that not all in our sector seem to have learnt from the numerous similar accidents that have happened in recent years. Thanks heavens no one lost their lives, but reading the report leaves me feeling almost as sad as if they had.
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