RevMan
Transfer this incident to a business environment.
No thanks, it may be gratifying for you to liken it to your particular area of expertise but it is not really relavent.
Although some of the human factors in your business environment scenario are present when flying an A320 with four people on the flight deck from two different airlines, and two different countries, communicating with someone from a third country through VHF radio while moving at 5km per minute.......there are other human factors that are not. It is not relavent because yours is a much simpler scenario with much less serious ramifications resulting from poor decision making.
It comes down to risk assessment - is the risk we're engaging in commensurate with the benefits?
Do you think perhaps that with 30,000 odd hours of flight experience on the flight deck that day, that the concept of risk management wasn't completely new to them? Maybe management should come down to the simulator and brief airline captains on risk assesment when they are doing their recurrent checks. Sounds like they got it all figured out.
