Interesting posts from NILFurther and ALTSEL - could it also be inferred from this that the captain of the Britannia 757 which did exactly the same thing was also "inexperienced", or is this a bit of flybe bashing?
As far as I know the names of the crew haven't been released yet within the company or outside - but if it is who we believe it is the captain was very experienced, with something between 15 and 20 thousand hours the majority of it on medium/heavy turboprops.
As far as the Q400 being difficult to handle, Flybe Q400s have been landing on this runway many times a day for the last two years with no incidents - if the aircraft was that hard to fly would not some of these 2500 hour crews which you allege exist have had problems before now?
As has been previously mentioned on this forum when conjecturing about accidents to commuter aircraft hours cannot be the only measure of experience - a pilot with 2000 hours of turboprop operations with Flybe would have performed almost that many landings either as PF or PNF - this sort of exposure to the critical phases of flight would take many more years and thousands of hours to amass in medium or longhaul operations.
No doubt in time the AAIB will tell us what actually caused the problem.