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An additional case that I know about, the Tenerife airport disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerif
by _sh 15y ago
An additional case that I know about, the Tenerife airport disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
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Speculation regarding other contributing factors includes:
The flight engineer's apparent hesitation to challenge Van Zanten
further, possibly because Captain Van Zanten was not only senior in rank,
but also one of the most able and experienced pilots working for the airline.
As a consequence of the accident, sweeping changes were made to
international airline regulations and to aircraft... Hierarchical
relations among crew members were played down. More emphasis was
placed on team decision-making by mutual agreement.
- Klinky 15y agoWouldn't the Air France 447 crash be an instance where a low ranking officer did not notice errors & was given too much control of the plane, resulting in the deaths of many people? It sounds like both co-pilots were having mental blocks while operating together in the cockpit. With Bonin stalling the plane, while Robert is unable to figure out why the plane was not responding like he thinks it should & the insecurity of these events leads him to defer to the captain, who is not present. I am not sure specifying a hierarchy would have helped so much in this case, but the example crashes given in this thread don't explicitly show that the hierarchical structure was the sole cause of the crashes, there were many contributing factors which lead up to both.