Just to be clear, I've never claimed that all pilots who wreck airplanes are, or should be, fired. I just said that it's not an unexpected outcome and not unreasonable. Just as an example closer to the incident at hand, the Midway pilots were not fired, by Southwest, but the Burbank pilots were.
As an aside, the article linked to the AA crash in Jamaica says that the airplane had a 17 mph max tailwind limit. Is this true? I had always though that 10 knots was the standard Part 25 limit for Transport category aircraft. All the transport aircraft I've flown had 10 kt TW limits