The bottom line is that, if GOD forbid and one of us does go to a US, UK or Australian destination and have an accident, the burden will fall almost solely on the crews shoulders or if it was the fault of maintenance it will be on there shoulders as well, as far as the the mechanic who worked on the aircraft and the engineer who signed it off.
The management of anyone of our airlines would say that you, THE ROGUE PILOT lack of procedure adherance are the sole cause of the accident. Even if the investigation says that a contributing factor may have been pilot fatigue, management would refer to our manual and say that when we signed into work we confirmed that,
1. We are in a good physical and mental condition, so that the tiredness that will acumulate will not affect the safety of the flight.
2. Flight duty is prohibited when a crew members capacity for work is reduced for various reason's, being sick, being tired, mental stress, injury, alcohol drugs etc.
So at the end of the investigation the blame will rest on the crew, the FAA may say that a contributing factor was the company involved and make a safety recommendation to the GCAA for better oversight, there will be a sacrificial lamb in management at EY,EK or QR, then its back to business as usual.
A few years ago Korean had a number of accidents, no doubt company politics and culture was a contributing factor, I do not know but did any management get convicted of wrong doing in any of those accidents?
Last edited by radial090; 8th June 2009 at 08:46.