Bookworm
If you review the SWA Flt 1455 Burbank Accident Report on the NTSB web-site you might agree that what you say about crews being best-equipped to determine their own destinies (no matter how sizeable their apparent and forthcoming upcock) - is a bit Utopian and could apply in an ideal world - however fatigue and task fixation and pomp and circumstance can cause crews to lose the bubble. I've seen it myself.
The NTSB's server seems to be down at present so the site is tempo unavailable.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES B-737 RUNWAY OVERRUN IN BURBANK
or perhaps something like this:
Emergency Landing for Plane After Crew Fight
Updated: Fri, Sep 07, 2001
TEHRAN, Sep (Reuters) - An Iran Air plane with 430 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Frankfurt after a dispute between the pilot and security guards, the carrier's head Behzad Mazaheri said Thursday.
The fight followed an attempt by the guards to keep a passenger from visiting the pilot in the cockpit during Wednesday's flight from Tehran to London, Mazaheri said on state television.
"The pilot then landed in Frankfurt airport, saying he did not have the morale to continue," he said, adding that the plane resumed its flight after six hours.
Mazaheri said the authorities were investigating.
Iranian airliners have been carrying several members of the Revolutionary Guards on each flight since a spate of hijackings in the 1980s by the People's Mujahideen, an Iraq-based Iranian rebel group.
Mazaheri said there have been numerous instances of quarrels between pilots and guards on Iran Air flights.