Betta stick to what you know down at Moorabbin mate! My line had a five thousand hour on type check captains license lapse while he wasn't looking. By the letter of the law all the OPC/LPCs he did were invalid but do you really think he was any less qualified to test just because his license was a couple of weeks out of date??
The final reports for some of those accidents mentioned have not been released and regarding the Saab 2000 accident, they found themselves in a situation we all dread - but thankfully extremely rarely face. In the circumstances they appear to have been unbelievable unlucky...