Originally Posted by
Airsupport
No they didn't. At the time of the crash they had more than the suggested mins. When they started their airline careers however they had significantly less. That is the problem. The fundamentals have all but been eliminated from a professional pilots repertoire. Hind sight is 20/20 and I don't like knocking on pilots who paid for their mistakes with their lives but the fundamentals weren't there. Pilots need more experience before moving on to the airlines. Low wages and ridiculous lifestyles do play a role also.
If they had more experience at the time of the accident then 1500 hours why then are we suggesting that low experience is the problem? I could understand it if the captain had 1600 hours and the FO had 300 but that is not the case at all.
They both had plenty of flight time. The problem is not flight experience but low wages, a hard life and a discounted future.
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