Ditzy, regardless of the company name, the crew and aircraft remains the same. It's all semantics.
Having said that, it could have happened to anyone, regardless of who they work for. They weren't the first, and probably won't be the last.
But the report didn't say that those inadvertant slat selections happened at 'gear up' (unless sometimes the gear goes up at 3000 ft?!).
I didn't think that under
normal operating conditions the slats were independently selectable of the flaps, but I'll stand to be corrected.
There is an enormous range of factors which can cause such things to occur. Somebody else can start a list........or you can go to the ATSB website...
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