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change their hiring practices back to bringing in experienced expat pilots?

Sounds more like a hard landing than a crash.

The MAT Twin Otter seaplane remained afloat and upright but one of the floats was damaged, leaving it leaning to one side with one wing extended into the water.

A damaged float...hardly a crash. Let's not get too dramatic here.

If you blow a tire on a hard landing, and the airplane is crippled on the runway because of it, does that count as a crash?

My bad. I only go on what I heard from what I thought is a reliable source. Kinda makes it worse though, when you think of it. Good conditions, etc.

The biggest problem is letting low time, inexperienced pilots who have only flown 172's in the right seat.

When you trade soveriegnty for safety, it is never good. The government and the companies are using these planes as training platforms. It would be a better scenario if f/o's had to have some real experience before being hired.

You have to agree, if you've ever spent time there, that there is a very large number of "incidents" for the number of planes. I even know of unreported as well as reported incidents at the competitor. I believe it's only a matter of time before there is a SERIOUS incident.

No operator I know of would ever let a 250 hr pilot with a 5 hr float endorsement jump into beaver on his first day.

Riiight - 'cause it's explicitly clear from the report that this accident is the fault of local pilots.


When is an accident not the fault of the pilots?

MAT twin otter crashed on landing at the Male Airport. Pictures show right wind in the water on what looks like the North Right Runway.

How many more accidents have to happen before they change their hiring practices back to bringing in experienced expat pilots?

On top of that, the country is in the throws of a coup with rioting going on all over. Sure wish I could spend my hard earned dollars on getting the shit scared out of me by the pilots and locals while vacationing in lotus land.