FAA Audit of DGCA
1/ I wonder if any of the Indian Captains wanting the expats out of India would care to mention the initial failure of audit carried out by the FAA on the DGCA. If not rectified this would have resulted in VT registered aircraft being banned from US airspace. EU authorities would have followed suit as a matter of course.
2/ What did the SOPs of IX say about crew landing at Mangalore. Was it "captains only", or could this leg and landing been the co-pilots? If so, maybe the captain was unable to correct
the problem in the time available.
3/ Having flown in India for some time, I agree with comments above about poor ATC, RT from local pilots, poor airmanship and bad training for local staff. Many local pilots with 210hrs and multi IF rating are recruited by local companies and put in right hand seat of sophisticated jet aircraft.