mrdeux -
Hopefully Emirates rights to operate to Australia are cancelled until this is sorted out.
That has to be the most naive response yet on this thread.
Should they cancel all Qantas flights until they get there recent spate of technical issues sorted out?
I wasn't referring to the incident itself, but rather the very quick removal of the pilots. Australia isn't Japan. Nobody was hurt, but it's still a pretty major event. At least having approval from the ATSB before heading home would seem prudent, and it makes it look much less like they are 'running away'. Now that they are 'home' I presume that the Australian ATSB will be well down the list of people that they will speak too...rather than being the first, as they probably should have been.