Wouldn'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 d

Wouldn'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.