18 wheeler good point. WHY do operators persist with long taxi checklists and yapping to the instruments and each other after the aeroplane is in motion or close to the ground? Either do it before you move off blocks or passing 5000 feet after takeoff. The taxi, line-up and landing phases are no place to be doing anything but the very MINIMUM of checklists and talk fests. There should be a mandate: max 5 items on taxi, 2 on line-up and 3 before landing. Make it work, boys and girls (and manufacturers who write this stuff in their AFMs) - if it don't fit, memorise the rest.
Oh, and briefings. Max 30 seconds allowed. Your time starts now.....but before we start the engines please, or before we start the approach, please.
Not saying that this is the cause of the incidents under discussion, but distraction from the main event of simply driving the machine is so often implicated, rarely cited as causal.