Just Culture???
I’m not defending the crew, whilst they must totally accept responsibility for their own actions, we must be cognisant of the fact that quite a lot of other people and organisations determined that both the pilots were apparently trained and suitably experienced to operate the aircraft before the sequence of events that led up to this accident.
As I stated above, we (those within the PNG aviation community) must take some responsibility to drum out this so called culture of busting hard minimums. I’ve seen it myself in the GA sector in PNG, now it’s obviously crept into ANG due to reasons as mentioned by NCD. Break a fundamental rule in PNG, you are likely to die as there are no second chances as most us all well known.
Have a look at the P2-TAA accident report, it’s a shocker with many parallels in relation to the root cause of this accident. The Captain totally ignored his co-pilot and pushed on with disastrous results.