Policies of this nature are not written with the specific in mind. They are there to cover the general and as such may well sweep up and adversly affect such luminaries as Captains Burkhill and Sullenberger.
They still protect the company from having to make judgements on often politically driven accident investiagtions. How many findings of an accident are contentious with one company or manufacturer or pilot or families of pilots contested in some fashion.
I would be honoured to sit next to either of the pilots mentioned above, but that is going into the specific and not the general.