1000h Captains: load of
. Most of the Skippers are very experienced having joined as commanders already. Internal upgrades aren't easy.
Reverse: Idle reverse preferred setting - using some form of reverse is mandatory, tea and no biscuits if it doesn't happen. Full reverse can do more harm than good at times but if you haven't had it happen you wouldn't know that.
Kuching's runway when wet has as much friction as a skating rink, if they landed in heavy rain and something started a yawing moment (asymmetric reverse spoolup?) it could be very hard to recover.
The weather changes so fast it can go from CAVOK with a CB nearby at 3 miles final to 800m in heavy rain as you're flaring, as if someone turned on a hose. Hard to see it coming, harder still to react.
Waiting for the final report to know more, however saying this wouldn't have happened to another airline is complete