Originally Posted by
Grumpyaviator
Yes, and many thousands of other flights that didn’t crash had low time FOs as well. I believe firmly in the ATP rule but we really can’t generalize like that. There have also been crashes where the pilots had thousands of hours.
True, but a low experience pilot usually can’t handle it when things go seriously “off script”. That said, I’ve seen lots of multi-thousand hour pilots who couldn’t either and I mean a simple pre-briefed QRH IA procedure in the sim.
GF