What does an accident look like on paper?
We have put forward a lot of ideas and suggestions about what may have happened at the pointy end, ie what the crew may or may not have done, doing that is an " old school" way of thinking about accidents IMO.
There may well be one, two or three errors regarding decision making, procedure, technical tasks etc from the pointy end, but I'd bet a months wages that there will be many more causal factors further up the chain.
How many decisions/policies of the Indonesian regulating body will have a hand in this?
How many decisions/policies of the Lion Air management team ( think recruitment, training, rostering SOP's) will have a hand in this?
If the aim is to reduce further accidents from occurring then these higher level causes seem to me, to be the most effective place to attack the problem. To attack the problem these links in the chain at least have to be acknowledged
as existing. As professional pilots we should be singing it from the roof tops rather than focussing solely on the last two or three links like Jo public naturally does.
Framer