Originally Posted by
Easy Street
Which report have you been reading? I've been reading the one where the captain overrides the FO's suggestions and then ATC's instructions to orbit. Let me guess, you are going to absolve the captain on the basis that the FO and ATC were insufficiently assertive?
In no case am I absolving the captain.
However, being an F/O myself, I identify as him and am easily prone to blaming him, as I would blame myself if I performed this poorly.
The F/O made many mistakes. The captain didn't notice them and didn't compensate them.
Not the other way around. And that is very specific to this case. Other crashes happened differently.
I'm not going against the general rule that the captain has the ultimate responsibility for the airplane. I'm just saying that in this particular case, his job was made very difficult by this F/O.