150kts? OMFG... it's amazing how quickly people and journos forget that the NTSC accident report is available online... with 190kts shown as the landing speed.
IMHO, if someone is to be held criminally negligent in this case, it's the F/O... he knew something was up with the Captain, said "go-around", but just stayed quiet... he failed his job as PM, which is to protect the PF from making these kinds of mistake.
I guess the author of the SMH article is committed in focusing on someone getting sentenced due to this accident, and since it's always easy to can the Captain, looks like he's fallen to the same bandwagon trap. *Sorry MF, but IMHO, this is not the way to avenge your friends' death... if you want to chase someone, you chase the ones failing the system*.
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Let's see if the Pilots Association here has sent observers to the trial and I wonder if calls for strikes (as they previously threaten) will happen...