Akerosid maintains that BA and CX would certainly have fired a pilot for committing such an error. Is this really so? I'm no expert but I have grave doubts. Can we hear from a veteran or two of one or other of those airlines on this subject? As an inerested outside observer of the industry, my gut feeling is that, generally, firings result only from incidences of pilot error where fatalities were involved.
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