such behaviour (non crew in the pilot's cabin) was something normal (i.e. usual, typical of these flights)
In your view, should it be? Do Americans have Obama or British have Cameron sitting in the cockpit during landing? Is that safe, according to you?
Come on people. You accuse me of playing politics but you ignore all the accepted rules to somehow point out that the pilots did little if anything wrong and that ATCs are just as guilty as the pilots. That's a technical and not a political stand?
1. Did they request PAR approach? (Yes or no?)
2. Did they follow the rules of that Russian half-PAR approach by reading their altitudes back? (Yes or no?)
3. Did they report reaching decision height and reported their intentions to ATC?
4. If they didn't give rat's ass about Russian procedures why were the ATCs suddenly required to go above and beyond to save them from doing something stupid?
This stand is similar to this situation. Suppose there is a law that you are supposed to report a drunk driver when you see one. You don't report one and he then kills a bunch of people. Does it make the drunk driver innocent or half innocent and you guilty of that crash because you didn't report him?