Originally Posted by
El Bunto
On the same day a FlyBE Q400 used its prop to gouge a lovely trench along the side of Schiphol's runway, but the airline wasn't 'requested' to stop flying for the day as a result of the incident. Unfortunately Van Air seem to have been a small, out-of-country, easy target for the CAA. If they meet all safety and certification requirements then there was no basis to ground them even if one crew made an error of judgement; seems like one rule for the big boys and another for the tiddlers.
One crew apparently operated their aircraft into forecast and actual winds outside of it's limitations, the other did not.
That's the difference, apparently.