from my knowledge, through Latin America initials and recurrents are done in the actual airplane
@ Supermoix:
Correct. On small types like the L-410, the DHC-6 and the likes training is usually done in the airplane. I haven't heard of one of those flights ever crashing.
Have any of you naysayers even considered the fact that these pilots did everything correct, but they just happened to have been dealt a "bad hand" on this particular day???
@DI3G: Rightly so; none of us are exempted from that one. No one has said otherwise though.