Surprising that 411A (and myself) survived flying the 707 with non-existant CRM basics and lack of SOP for taxi speeds.
You guys survived but as you know many did not. Pan Am put metal on a lot of Pacific islands before they improved the training and aircraft became more reliable.
I'm told that the accused AA captain had an 'unfortunate date of hire' at Continental, is this true? Was he from Reno Air perhaps?