PJ2 wrote at 20th Jul 2012 18:27
The changes required are not ours alone to make, and they are not all merely “technical”.
B-Schools and an MBA degree do not teach business leaders about the principles of aviation, perhaps nor should they. But those entering aviation at the executive level do not innately possess an understanding of how high-risk enterprises are made safe and they need to to be able to provide leadership in non-finance areas of an aviation operation.
Your comments are spot on, and relevant in medicine as well. Remember Monty Python's machine-that-goes-ping?
At least doctors and pilots should know better than relying completely on error-prone gizmos.
When executives don't understand the field they're in, it's limbo based on short-term profits. To those guys, AF447 will hopefully be an indication how the bar can't go lower wrt pilot training.