I cannot for one moment countenance the thought that two pilots, inexperienced in icing conditions as they might have been, would have simply f@cked up like this.
Hard as it might be to admit, we may never know.
I dunno. I have worked many years in 703 ops in Canada, and the things I have seen would make your skin crawl. and that's from pilots FAR more experienced than these guys. There is a new normal. The one where it's not your fault. it must be the company or the aircraft. Sorry, they $%^ed up royally, and if they were are tired as we have been lead to believe they should never have accepted that flight.
Sorry, but I've just about had enough of this ****. Pilots have become whores (seriously, who takes a job that pays $16000/yr??????) and have helped create this mess. And from where I sit, it will only get worse.
As pilots we should step back and take a good hard look at where we are headed, because from my position, it's not pretty.