Err... hold on a minute! Before Finncom (or any other airline) is labelled as an usafe operation, what do we know about these incidents? Seems that these reports emanate from a daily newspaper, so there probably aren't many technical details - it so happens I can't read Finnish
Skidding (partly) off the runway? What were the weather conditions at the time? I recall that an ATR and an ERJ-145 recently went off the runway at Bristol due to a combination of strong x-winds, ungrooved runway and contaminated surface (standing water). As far as I know, the CAA hasn't come down on the two airlines concerned - but the airport got into some trouble... Remember, the ATR is a high-wing aircraft with a narrow wheel track - which can make it tricky to land in strong or gusting x-winds.
The EGPWS event:
might be a case of poor cross-checking or "confirmation bias".
Maybe the same for the AFCS event, with both pilots having their head down; however, the ATR AFCS is notoriously
not very user-friendly (thank you Honeywell!); too short a push on a mode push button and it may not engage. Here again, "confirmation bias"
might have played a part.
If indeed that is the case, then these two (CRM-related) mistakes are pretty basic and I can't see the link with ATR using fixed-base sims for
part of the type rating.
Cheers
FM (trained on ATR FFS throughout)