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Maybe the answer to all of this is to have pilot training "on type" conducted separately from passenger aviation, I would envisage planes shuttling from location to location continuously with all the prospective trainees housed in hotels at either end, a team of trainers, and everyone on the one aircraft with no passengers, then if something like this happens, the casualty count is very small. It would be a selling point for aviation in general, as one has to assume some prospective passengers are probably a bit nervous about booking onto flights after these sorts of incidents. I suppose with the lack of incidents on major North American and European carriers that problem is less pointed. It might also be good for both confidence building and skill development if training pilots and trainees were from different airlines..............
The pilot flying Asiana 214 was not a "Trainee". He was FULLY qualified to fly the B777 due to the intensive training he had already received in Groundschool and in the Simulator. A Simulator so advanced and so realistic that there is no requirement to fly an actual B777 in order to be certified.
What he was doing was Line Indoctrination Training which all airlines do for a new Captain or First Officer only because the Airline Industry takes safety very seriously and leaves nothing to chance.
The accident was not caused because a new B777 Captain was at the controls. The accident happened because of a very complicated set of circumstances which is rampant in many(but not all) airlines outside of Europe and North America.