Originally Posted by
aterpster
This airplane has been in service since 1998 or so. How many stall crashes have there been with this type since then?
Further, it seems that flight level change is not an appropriate mode for final approach, wouldn't you agree?
This, in spades.
Also, if the investigators are going ape on the manufacturers, they utterly miss the point. The industry all over the world, which is the companies that provide passenger service, need to have the training and currency tools in place, and stress on the basics (see recent FAA commentary on same) as a requirement, not on an "if we can afford a bit now and again" basis.
It's the cost of doing business to keep your aircrew current and proficient.
Current and proficient aircrew who know their aircraft inside and out is a reasonable expectation of the fare paying public. A great many professional pilots meet that description, but as we can see from Asiana, not all do.
A basic principal:
Don't send partially or poorly trained, or non-current, pilots out to carry people about.
Seems a basic rule of airline management to me.
But is it?