Chaps
I'm not excusing him and I don't think I'll try the same trick myself!
No one hurt. No paint scratched. Bad flying. Bad CRM.
An incident not an accident.
The point I was trying to make is that they were fu**ing around on purpose. The marital stress stuff had sod all to do with it.
To hear some of the holy holies on here you'd think he'd killed someone.
As far as going again without getting the flaps looked at, the FO implicated himself in the incident by not pressing for the engineers to have a proper look.