The simple application of procedure would have meant these events could have been avoided. We do not need to modify procedures or create new ones," they said in the letter quoted by La Tribune.
This sort of statement is so typical. Don't airline management teams realise that THEY are resposible for the safety culture and flight deck discipline that exists at any one time within an airline? After moving through a few different airlines over the years it is blatently obvious that the airlines with excellent adherence to SOP's and flight deck disciplne (ie the safe ones) are the ones with skilled, motivated, intelligent management teams. And the reverse is true.
Management need their own special form of SA. Here's a parralell; maintaining a perfect descent speed, tracking and vertical profile on an approach while forgetting to extend the gear is us losing SA, maintaining excellent economic operational efficiencies and high ROI for investors while forgetting your staff training/discipline/motivation obligations, is losing SA for them.
For us and them, there is no point in getting one part of the equation right if another part fails. If we lose SA like above we are seen as having performed poorly at our job. So it should be for them. To come out with a statement that says "Straighten up and fly right boys" is to completely shift the focus away from the problem.
If we forget to extend the gear as in the scenario above, the EGPWS should sqwark at us "Too low gear", what is managements equivilent??? Maybe the unions sqwarking "We need different safety systems".
Framer