I agree with both previous statements, but the greater point is:
This wasn't two incompentents who somehow slipped past management oversight; This is a case of a willfully dangerous, corrupt and illegal operator named Udom Tantiprasongchai who employs anyone -- skilled or unskilled, drug addicted or not drug addicted, English proficient or not English proficient <Yes, that's you I'm talking about> -- as long as that "commercial pilot" is willing to work for Udom's salary and airline. Of course, mostly only the unskilled or drug addicted or non-English speakers accepted those conditions.
And, of course, of a Thai Civil Aviation Authority, DCA, who accepts bribes whenever bad behavior -- as checkride fraud, maintenance malpractice,.... and commercial crash -- to look the other way. <Hey, Wittichai: How's your golf game? MUCH better than Udom's, I hear.>
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