Channel were also very adept at hiring pilots who had been fired by other airlines.
The pilot who was flying the DC3 which crashed fatally on the Isle of Wight in 1962 had been fired by BKS earlier that year. He was observed on a base check by the ministry which he failed. Guess what when he re took the base check a week later without an inspector on board he passed
Information about the base check contained in the AIB files on the accident at the National Archives.
Info on the Captain being fired by BKS from Captain Arthur Whotlocks book. Behind the cockpit door