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http://avherald.com/h?article=4bba212e&opt=0

It is truly frightening that this sort of pilot can exist. Reportedly an 'instructor' with the airline too. He supposedly flew the first of the 4 sectors to show the 'new' F/O how to fly the approach into Al Hoceima.

One has to say that the F/O obviously had not absorbed the tuition.

Too high on hashish or hubris, too low on approach...

One assumes they have both been canned for a flagrant disregard for SOPS, good flying standards and sense ...

One assumes they have both been canned

Possibly a rash assumption.

I see there is some suggestion that the crew initially reported the incident as a 'birdstrike' to ATC (later corrected) - presumably a seagull sitting on the surface.......

Memories of the cartoon that appeared in Tegel Pilot briefing in July 1988 of two dishevelled birds sitting in a nest in a damaged tree at Mulhouse–Habsheim airfield

"Qui a dit 'Merde'?"