Actually, I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster As with the example y

Actually, I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster As with the example you gave, though, a key reason for the crash was that "The flight engineer's and the first officer's apparent hesitation to challenge Veldhuyzen van Zanten further", leading to over 500 fatalities.