Mikey,
How about the lack of CRM in the Tenerife disaster? There are also human factors involved due to lack of line time for the KLM captain, duty hours being an issue as well as all the other little glitches that took place to set up the world's worst aviation disaster
Forget CRM, TEM, Human factors. They have all been done to death countless times ad nauseum.
Total blind adherence to automation forced upon by manufacturers and hailed as the ONLY way to operate a modern jet transport. This is steadily producing qualified seat warmers called flight deck automatics manager (sometimes quaintly known as Pilot Flying even though he does not "fly" the aeroplane except for maybe five minutes of each trip) or flight deck automatics monitor (sometimes called Pilot Monitoring).
Forgive the obvious cynicism, but the problem of automation complacency needs far more effective attention than it gets. With 90 percent of flight simulator training devoted to button pushing and "monitoring" and pages of Ops Manual Bibles of "support" calls to be annunciated to the exact word, is it any wonder pilots are rarely given the opportunity to keep their hands on the controls and practice the essential motor skills needed to land safely on a dark and stormy crosswinds night. If simulator instructors could tell the truth on what they often see when the automatics are switched off it would make your hair stand on end.
A vital subject for a thesis but regretfully it won't change a thing.