Sorry to hear that,
Airbubba - re "crossing the line".
You raise an interesting point,
Seriph. Can "suits", "beanies", and other non-flight staff be causitive factors in accidents? This is a subject I had intended raising with my current employer, as I believe that EVERYONE who has contact with operating crew
may be directly - or indirectly - implicated in some of the critical decision-making processes a crew is faced with on occasions.
Just as the "suits" and "beanies" are (directly) involved with the lives and futures of the employees of
Enron, World com. and
Xerox, pilots are often seen as being responsible for the reputation of the companies for whom they fly - when they make the WRONG decision.
The difference being a pilot's decision in such cases is almost always one made on the "spur of the moment", whereas the cases quoted above were apparently PRE-MEDITATED, and designed to gain the maximum financial benefit for the individual - at the expense of the majority!