Human Factors and THY Schipol crash
CRM is very much a matter concerning human factors. It is an attempt to recognise and reduce as much as possible from the inadequacies and failings inherent in us all as human beings.
Whilst the discussions on this forum seem to have centered on these failings which have in one way or another led to major catastrophes, there is an apparrent lack of any discussion where the ocurrence of events capable of a major catastrophy were succesfully contained and disaster was not the outcome of the event. A good example is the Air Transat Airbus A330, sometime referred to as The Azores Glider. Should we not consider what the crew did not do rather than what they did and how did the character, personality and background of the crew affect the outcome. On my part for what it is worth, all on board were truly lucky to have had Captain Piche sitting at the right seat on that flight, an admirable example of our imperfect human race. So lets be careful out there, we don`t want to throw out the baby with the bath water now do we, in all our ever deepening search, research and analysis of all the CRM, Human Factors and probes into every nook and cranny of all and every brain cell.