Sterile cockpit is overrated as a safety issue.
bubbers44, how can you say this?
From the NTSB report on the Comair Lexington crash of 8/27/06 (49 fatalities).
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
The flight crewmembers's failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversation during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness, and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control clearances.