Co-pilot error caused AA 587 crash

"nobody" wrote in message
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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.

One might expect so, but airlines build their training to suit their methods
and the FAA approves them despite the differences. And even under approved
training and procedures, there's a vast gray area called "technique" that
gives pilots discretion to operate their aircraft.

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.

Then there was the pilot from some airline south of the border who flew into
the ground after ignoring the GPWS squawks, his words to the effect of "Shut
up, Yanqui bitch!" immortalized near the end of the CVR.