Originally Posted by
Kit d'Rection KG
CRM: A pointless deconstruction of some aspects of good airmanship which has generated a huge and pointless industry and brought about no noticeable change in the accident rate (qv).
The rise of CRM in the past 25 years or so has accompanied significant improvements in overall safety rates in major Western and international carriers. Just do a survey of fatal events in the past 25 years versus the previous 25, factoring in also the rate of growth in the industry. Now these two trends may just be coincidental, but on the other hand.......