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If the flaps and slats were not extended and the crew announces that they are set (by rote memorization of the checklist) the problem is not with the individual crew,
Cetaurus
Strongly disagree. You might as well say a drunken driver crashing his car and killing people is not really his fault but the fault of his parents for not teaching him as a child how to drink in moderation...
OK with the rhetoric, but what is there left to fix? to prevent the next accident.
Certainly not the crew.
If there were similar rote responses in a statistical sample, then perhaps training changes and checklist changes.
However if this is just a 1 out of E-4 then we need another line of defense that is more effective.
I would love to know what the true error rate is using configuration warning horn data that catches almost all of these just-in-time. Only by matching the crew cheese layer against the warning horn cheese layer can I begin to understand what can reasonably be fixed.