Lack of Training. The 737 Max story continues

I've published a couple of items on the 737 Max, the most recent one being here:

The Aerodrome: 737 Max Grounded and Technology as "Too Complicate...: Yesterday I wrote about the 737 Max and the efforts to ground them globally in this post here: Pushing Pause on the Boeing 737 Panic. ...

In my first post, I noted this:

Most nations, including nations that put in a lot of flight time, don't train anywhere near to the American standard.  American private pilots have knowledge that vastly exceeds the knowledge of many pilots that step into lesser commercial roles elsewhere, and American commercial pilots are not only second to none, there's no comparison everywhere.

This morning on the news, the news was noting the same thing, including in an interview by a Canadian commercial pilot.

The Lion Air pilot, age 29, who was at the helm of the recently crashed 737 Max in Ethiopia had 8,000 hours total experience. 

His co-pilot?  200 hours.

200.

There's no way that second chair would have been occupied by a pilot with so little experience in the US or Canada.  One experienced pilot stated that this was like putting a 13 year old in the co-pilots seat.

We don't know the cause of the crash yet.

But these pilots weren't experienced the way that American pilots were. The co-pilot shouldn't have been in the second chair at all.