Perm (Russia) Boeing 735 crash 2008 - 88 killed - pilot error, spatial disorientation - would this have happened if one of the crew had 2,000 hours?
Captain Rodion Medvedev had a flight record of 3689 hours while First Officer Rustam Allaberdin had 8713. Later it was revealed that Medvedev's flight record as a captain was 452 hours and that Allaberdin's experience of Boeing 737's was just 219 hours.
It's clear that these things can be investigated after the event; records are available in places other than the crew log book. Is it not mandatory to check these thing? Is the airline/employer not culpable in a case like this?
I'm clearly a scardy cat; I'm too frightened to add even 15 mins to my ppl log book.
WP