Timzsta - Good points. we have (for years) lived off the fat of people's previous experience gained through training and then practice and exposure to the job. Perhaps now the cuts and reductions sufered by those at the sharp end might be coming home to roost.
Flight Safety talk about "breaking the chain". I've no doubt the BOI will identify such a chain of events and point out where mistakes were made. Doesn't help those guys and gals trying to cope at the moment.
That "warm fuzzy feeling" that anyone who has operated over the water away from Mum likes to feel can only be engendered by experience. And top kit.