Interesting thread. I think what rankles with the 'shred his license' people is:
1. It wasn't just that he screwed up the approach, it's that he wilfully and in full knowledge of his situation, and against multiple warnings, persisted with an approach that was so screwed up it should have been thrown away long before.
That was bad. But for me the killer (and not many people have touched on this) is:
2. He knowingly and substantially exceeded airframe structural limits (Vfe) and did/said nothing - covered it up in fact.
Would *you* like to be the one suddenly facing assymetric flap at a critical stage of flight a few hundred hours after this guy had finished with the aircraft? This kind of behaviour has killed people before now.
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