There is a tremendous amount of outcome bias in this thread.
What's a good decision by a captain? One that saved lives.
What's a bad decision by a captain? One that cost lives.
The rightness or a wrongness of a decision in the minds of too many people is simply a function of the results that followed from it. But hindsight is always 20-20. That has absolutely nothing to do with safety as a
process.
The key question is does any improvement in procedures or training make a difference in safety outcomes when the outcome of the relevant decision making is unpredictable in advance. Faced with a whole host of unknown factors successful outcomes often don't come down to training or procedures but old fashioned luck. Honest captains admit this.
Not that here are many honest people around, captains or no.
