Originally Posted by
megan
...it demonstrates the failure of the training system up to that point, any weaknesses the student had should have been captured prior to that point...
It does nothing of the sort, unless you happen to know the FULL story. Was it simply a case of a bounced landing on the final test, or were there other issues; were deficiencies previously identified and if so, what remedial training was provided? Like it or not, but there is a cutoff point at which someone in management must make a decision about a trainee's future. In some cases, that might well be the final handling test. No organisation, military or commercial, provides endless remedial training in the hope that a candidate might eventually make the grade.