Michael Birbeck - quite right and well put.
For airlines to sack/force pilots involved in incidents such as this to resign will do nothing. Perhaps this is the aviation equivalent of lashing a muslim woman because she has been seen in the company of another man. Primitive and ultimately ineffective.
Certainly some retraining and perhaps even disciplinary action may be justified but how will sweeping this matter under the carpet by terminating those involved in any way rectify human-factors based errors?
It never will and employers who use such tactics are simpletons.
Unfortunately their human factors based errors (poorly planned expansion, dismal fuel hedging plans, engaging in illegal freight cartels etc)rarely physically injure people, these employers just tootle off to the next company willing to pay impressive bonuses etc.
About time sime mature and forward-looking tactics were used to try to counter such errors rather than this primitive foolishness.