All that the bringing of these criminal charges will do is to make a few sacrificial heads roll whilst allowing the powerful individuals who earn the really big bucks from Spanair and who allowed this culture of corporate safety complacency to prevail to walk away totally scot free.
Yes. The Europeans like to triumphant to the skies how their "systems theory" approach is so much better than the empirical approach of the Americans. See, as a perfect example, the quote from Safety Concerns above of this page about TEAM work.
What a joke. The systems theory approach is more about class snobbery than it is about safety. The only people who are safe in such a system are not the passengers but the corporate heads.