Originally Posted by Elevation

Hang on a minute. You're pulling a Juan Browne here: jumping to conclusions or strongly suggesting possibilities before the dust settles on an event or crew. Major US carriers, including DAL and UAL had fuselage wrinkling events from hard landings on the 757/767 going back to the early 80s. Hiring got tougher and easier in waves over the last 40 years, but a more or less constant drumbeat of wrinkled forward fuselages on these planes has been happening from places like mine to nice companies with big budget training programs. As you say, youre a 767 instructor. Im sure, like many of us, you reviewed the NTSB and EASA data on this type when you moved on to the airframe. You probavbly did so again when you took an instructor position. On this specific type of event I'm not sure whether or not we see correlation.

I'm a fan of the 1500hr rule. I think we can look at air safety in the US and see that it has made a difference. Where I push back is wading into this mishap, this crew and their investigation. Not cool.