Luddites want to dismiss the benefits of technology through fear or ignorance.
The more you monitor the more that risk is reduced.
Non compliance is different from errors. Errors are not a choice, non-compliance is a choice, a non-professional one. The NTSB have certainly realised that they are often investigating accidents where pilots (or controllers) have been blatantly unprofessional (eg Colgan, Hudson collision, teh A320 overfly, the CRJ wrong runway take off etc etc) and that those people wre probablu habitually un-professional but assumed that their slackness was OK because they had never had an accident.
Major Tony Kern, USAF Ret., was a U.S. Air Force pilot with operational experience in the Rockwell B-1B supersonic bomber, Boeing KC-135 Tanker, and the Slingsby T-3 Firefly. During his 15-year Air Force career, he served in various operational and training capacities including the Chief of Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) Plans and Programs at the USAF Air Education and Training Command (AETC). He wrote a case study of the B-52 crash titled "Darker Shades of Blue". It is an intriguing, in depth report of failed leadership and cultural issues that directly contibuted to the incident. It's the story of a "hot dog" pilot and how he lived outside the regs.
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7zx3v/s...arker_blue.doc
That is an accident that would have been prevented by CVRM.