[QUOTE=Undecided;11110568]…his job was to protect his pilots from commercial pressure yet it is clear that he succumbed to it on the day of the incident and therefore it is most likely that this was not a one off.]
Particularly this. It is a near certain thing that the way the decisions got made followed a pattern. In this event, even the first approach which should have chastened the Commander into a rethink was not enough to break it. Absolutely shocking. And that the PM did not put in a robust challenge speaks volumes about the real culture irrespective of what is on paper.