Originally Posted by
Chronus
For those who are engaged in aviation at all levels, it must be the learning from failure that they must be concerned with.
Yes. But the failure in this case was (or rather: seems to have been) the inability or unwillingness of an individual to say NO when it would have been appropriate to do so. There is a lot of human factor involved there, no doubt. We all have been in that situation (even those of us flying in the seemingly controlled environment of airlines and commercial GA operations) and have either said "no" or gotten away with it with either luck or skill or both. For me this is less about blame or judgement but rather a question whether the lessons learnt here will help me to give the correct answer to the next difficult question my job will throw at me.