This accident seems to come up with regularityYeah, i guess they are DEFINITIVELY in bitter need for a few more &qualified (!) A 330/ 340 Skippers, if you read below, how they wrecked their own, brand-new A 340 at the delivery @ Toulose -
extremely embarrasing
The photos came out in November 2007, there was never a cover up. No Etihad employees were onboard, was Airbus industries and ADAT staff doing the run up, the nationalities and religion where not relevant to the incident, only their incompetence was. So don't go and say that Etihad needs better A340/330 skippers. My experience here is that standards are very high in flight ops.