Below are two quotes from a post above:
Originally Posted by
autoflight
it seems reasonable, pending a final report, to assume the crew was not following standard procedures. The big question is “why not?”
P.P.S. If I’m right, how confident could one be that this appears in the final report?
My money would be on this report throwing the crew under the bus for not following SOP’s. But is that really the full story? When no data monitoring exists, when an airline has a poor training, checking and management, when the oversight authority doesn’t understand the industry, when local culture allows perceived seniors to really make a Horlicks of things and get away with it then it will not be surprising that SOP’s will not followed. On Page 83 FlightDetent asked some really good questions. I’ll bet few if any of these have been considered.
SOP’s arise as a result of having the core foundations well established. They are not an end in themselves. They are merely a way of operating complex systems in such as way so that everybody understands what is going on.