concur
757, I concur with this view. I am slightly concerned as I followed this thread that people were very quick to immediately look for the underlying corporate failures and pressures driving the crew to exceed limits.
We do not know that was the case, however, it was not the AOC holder flying that day, nor the ticket agent, nor anyone other than the flight crew,with a Captain who frankly should have known better.
I was a tragic accident that we all know should not have happened. Legacy carriers have accidents, and sometimes the legacy systems are at fault,and they are rectified. I think it wrong to look immediately for sub standard operations structures, just because it was ACMI, and therefore faulty in some way.