Astro, what happens with the pilot in situations like this? I'd be drinking heavily at this point if I were him, thats what I did when I ran over my chainsaw with the Kubota and I knew I had to eventually tell the wife. I cant imagine whats going through his mind right now.
Obviously I'm not Astro, but I'm also an A&P, and I've read about aviation culture enough, both here on this board, where we have some very experienced and knowledgeable pilots, to know that unless the PIC and check airman were demonstrably negligent, their jobs won't immediately be on the chopping block.
Of course, there are a LOT of factors that will come into play, which can count both in their favor and possibly against them, in the investigation, including experience, training history, evaluation history, recent schedule, any possible problems with the aircraft, weather at the time, and many other things I'm not thinking of or aware of.
I know that airlines in 2023, especially Western airlines (US, Canada, UK, Western Europe, Australia) have learned that punitive culture is not helpful, and tends to lead to attempts to cover up mistakes.
That being said, they also have to take future liability into account if they've lost confidence in an individual's decision making and/or skill.
I'd be interested to hear
@Astro14 and
@lurker comment further on this, when they have the time, and certainly correct anything I've said that's off base.
EDITED TO ADD: Drinking won't help anything. If I were that pilot, I'd feel bad, but I'd be doing everything I possibly could to show how sorry I was that it happened, and that I was willing to do anything and everything possible to prevent anything of the sort from ever happening again. I would think the worst thing they could do would be to show any kind of arrogance. I'd want to show a willingness to take every training and sim class they wanted me to take. If you're him, you have to accept that it happened and move on with a resolve never to let it happen again (Indeed, if he was at fault. We don't know any of the details. There could be circumstances we don't know about, of course.)