We really must make these jobs worth their candle - even at the cost of the ticket price. Professional pilots terms and conditions, rostering, rest periods, FTLs, have been eroded for the past decade if not longer. The job MUST be made tolerable, or we will generate more of these tragedies...
This does not necessarily mean more pay - just better overall conditions and a culture of valuing professional pilots.
With more low time cadets being taken into the teams, we must value them. They are the Captains of the next generation.
I won't disagree with you but keep in mind that, if it turns out that the FO deliberated descended and crashed, we're talking about a guy with 630hrs on type.
That is what? A year in the airline? Can't think a guy with such a low time and having passed through only a few experiences (the good and the bad ones) will be such in a mood of doing a thing like that.
My point is, sometimes you can't blame rostering, low pay, pressure... it's just human nature. Some people go nuts and then **** happens. If it was a suicide it will be hard for us in the industry to believe and to accept but we somehow will have to.