Certainly there is a degree of blame with them as well. However, Boeing is well aware that there are varying levels of experience and training quality among their customers around the world. And no, I wouldn’t dare say “it never would have happened in the US” (remember Colgan?). To then go ahead with a design that is inherently unstable and lacks properly engineered system redundancy in a critical flight control system is completely inexcusable. Zero sympathy here for the box Boeing has put themselves in.