Time to change checking philosophies?
It appears that the Captain was the least experienced crew member.
Was P2 a command failure and if not what was he doing in the RHS?
Having grown up with the chop test mentality the majority of my greatest errors were during line checks.
Partly due to the character of some of those check pilots...but also having someone breathing down your neck watching and writing everything they see.
Is it not about time that we place more emphasis and time on simulator training and install video cameras in all flight decks where the pertinent portions of flights can be analysed on the ground?
I worked for three legacy carriers...in two we had a few checkers who were incompetent bullies...The most extreme were removed with union pressure.
There were also three different mentalities to those who were marginal.
One made everyone into captains.
One sacked command failures.
One put them into a comparatively safe environment.
Whether this has any relevance to the accident I haven't a clue but three pilot isn't a normal operation nor is a FO with more experience than P1.