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"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."
You're missing the point. The pilots, it seems, made a cock-up. That cock-up almost resulted in a major disaster. and apparently wrote off an aircraft. Everyone can learn from it but there's no way they can keep their jobs after that. We all make mistakes and we can all sympathise but there are mistakes and there are mistakes if you know what I mean.
From a line manager's perspective, the confidence is blown and the trust is gone. From a senior management perspective they're looking at two chaps who almost cost them their airline.