Drag, Welcome to the thread. And what would your interest in the thread from the UAE be then?
I am ex RBA, know more about the incident referred to than was ever put in the MOR (I have seen a copy of the DFDR) - which itself was only submitted after a prompt from management - and fully agree with xrba comments regarding leniency. In fact the latter case appears to actually reward the captains incompetence and, shall we say reticence in submitting the MOR, by promoting him.
FTM should fall on his sword over his mismanagement of the whole affair.