Notwithstanding that this incident took place in China, if it was in fact in their SOP's NOT to do this under the conditions noted, then it comes down to intentional non-compliance.
The first question being WHY did they non-comply, if it was not for a very very good reason then "shoot em" as Narrow Runway suggested, however a few posters on this thread have already "found" them guilty, just as NR said PPrune would do and without all the FACTS!!
