Both events appear to show serious deficiencies in CRM
Am I the only person to wonder if the term "CRM" is in danger of being a catch-all excuse for todays aircraft accidents in general? if the captain or his first officer flares too late and does a hard landing, the first thing that people talk about on Pprune is that he didn't use enough CRM -as if it is some type of new sunscreen or something.
From the current evidence on Pprune
there is a good possibility that the cause of the Lion Air accident will be found to be the failure of the captain to conduct a safe go-around after losing all forward vision due heavy rain at or below the MDA. Where the actions of his first officer will come into the equation, has yet to be revealed.
But lack of CRM, or poor CRM or whatever other label can be applied to CRM, is steadily becoming a tired cliche applied to almost every accident report. In turn, this has fuelled an enthusiastic acceptance in the industry by professional and amateur pilots alike, that CRM must have been involved otherwise there probably would not have been an accident.
It should be remembered that CRM as a published concept first came to vogue after the PANAM/KLM double 747 crashes in the Canary islands that caused such great loss of life.
Suddenly the spectre of the God-like arrogant captain figure became alive and so CRM was designed to encourage subordinates to speak up and not cower before the Captain Queegs of the LH seat.