The checklist could have prevented this
Having a checklist is no panacea in and of itself. It falls to how you use the checklist
In the course of sixty airline flights eight hundred ninety-nine deviations were observed (194 in checklist use, 391 in monitoring, and 314 in primary procedures).
A link to the paper.
https://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/f...010-216396.pdf