A) I hardly EVER breach sterile cockpit, but ESPECIALLY when I'm in bad ice, at night and about to begin approach; all in a type that I have 25 hours in, and certainly when I was a 1500 hour green FO at ASA, I never opened my mouth unless I had something to say to contribute to the safety of flight below 10,000.
B) This accident shows in many ways the brokenness of the "regional" airline business model... it's all cost based and as long as we're not willing to pay more for it, we'll continue to get marginal pilots flying us around..
The pay sucks, the training sucks, and the workrules and schedules suck.. who else would take a job like that in this day and age unless they too maybe also suck? I took crap wage jobs 15 years ago because then (unlike now) there were jobs to be had at the mainline, and there was a sort of light at the end of the tunnel (ASA to new hire American in 4 yrs).. back then The mainline was 25X the size of the "regional"... but due to weakening scope and lobbing by the ATA, the mainline is now about the same size as the regionals... which is to say, the days of using it as a stepping stone are long gone... so why are people still sinking $50K into training to then take $19K/yr jobs??? Why?
but when you hire people who listen to:
Life in the skies- How to become a pilot and get a job flying.
what do you expect?