Why are we not seeing a recognisable drop in this statistic due to the effectiveness of CRM training?
The answer to that is simple. CRM and it's younger brother TEM has grown into a huge cottage industry where regulators, operators and pilots have been duped into paying big dollars and being convinced, by the sheer weight of books, articles, and pseudo scientific research, that CRM will save all passsengers and crews from dreadful deaths because the pilots cannot be trusted not to crash as soon as the opportunity presents itself. There is ample evidence that the type of personalities - make that captains only -(aggressive, egotistical, bullying) to which the principles of CRM were hopefully suppose to apply, are genetically disposed to this sort of behaviour and they will never change. The whole CRM thing is a con and is nothing more than a continuous talk-fest of psycho-babble. But I tell you what - there is real money to be made out of it if you can find the right publisher