AJC wrote:
And for what it's worth there is a very scary documentary of yet
another AA crash, an MD8X/9X I think, landing during a storm. Again
the culture prevailing at American Airlines was heavily criticized.

However, when another airline had one of its jets decide to leave the airport
and stop the plane at a Burbank petrol station (blocking traffic in a large
boulevard), some pilot who used to post here mentioned that that particular
airline was renowend for having a very cowboy pilot attitude and that this
accident was a perfect example.

So it is interesting that airlines would have "personalities/cultures" which
make their pilots significantly different. One would have expected airline
pilots to be trained more or less all the same way when flying the same planes.

The midair collision over Switzerland is another example: one pilot is from an
airline whose culture says "listen to TCAS", whereas the other pilots had a
culture of "listen to air traffic controller" and those two litterally clashed.