The NTSB should have issued guidance that if the pilot or copilot is in a distraught emotional state, takeoff should not happen. And it is the responsibility o

The NTSB should have issued guidance that if the pilot or copilot is in a distraught emotional state, takeoff should not happen. And it is the responsibility of the other to abort takeoff. This is organizationally hard to do within an airline. But it is easy to do if regulators back it up, and the questionable state is backed up by dialog during the "sterile cockpit".