“... looking for examples of management pressure, possibly inadvertent, affecting pilots ... the Company demands the cheapest alternate... Any real world examples of this insidious pressure ... [?]”
Examples? You’ll likely have to infer about any management pressure, the investigators may not explicitly describe that as cause. Other AAR readers/writers have described their own inferences.
_Flight Safety Digest_, May 1991, pgs 1-15;
http://www.flightsafety.org/pubs/fsd_1991.html C.O. Miller, “Investigating the Management Factors in an Airline Accident”; 28 pages. [PDF 181K]
“The significance of management’s role in the sequence of events ending in accidents is examined and suggestions are advanced that the influence of management be included in accident investigations.”
[From the first paragraph, on pg 1:]
“The management factor in aircraft accident investigation has emerged as a relatively recent phenomenon ... The absence of a specific investigative protocol is only part of the reason ...”
[From the last paragraph, on pg 8:]
“Government authorities should take steps to introduce ... accident prevention management investigation into accident inquiry ...”
C.O. had given two earlier papers on this topic, in ’84 and ’88; and there’s another paper on the weaknesses of later regulatory changes [response to NTSB Recomm A-89-130] that were meant to focus on this management-element [see C.O.’s later paper “Director of Safety”, _Air Line Pilot_, May’96, pgs 34-7].
His Appendix III of that 1991 paper (FSF May’91 pg 15 ) offers some candidate mishaps (AAR’s) for your consideration.