Saab340,
Well said. I think the subject escalated purely in defense of the crew. The audacity and righteousness necessary to make any assumption because of gender or experience so soon after the event is egomaniacal. The number of comments overheard in my own crew lounge was dismaying. I think as pilots, there is some innate instinct to justify things in our own minds - to somehow seperate ourselves and step back and say "that wouldn't happen to me because...", otherwise it would be hard to get back in the seat everytime an accident occured. But at some point, that tendency is detrimental to our own judgement.