What confuses me is that all the pundit TV shows keep saying tonight is
that authorities have decided not to charge the pilots with a crime.
Are they shaving the distinction between "crime" and a "violation" very
closely. I can't imagine there wouldn't be administrative action
against these two pilots. At least remedial training and a check ride
with an FAA examiner. Or a license suspension. You'd get as much for a
transgression into a plain old class B or C.