Am unsure how the debate about the authority gradient applies when both crew are Captains and the more senior one is an instructor PNF in the RHS. Is there anything culturally that would prevent him from speaking out? Or else he was either maxed out, in the same mental A/T trap or just not wasn't paying attention?
Still, there was a case in a now defunct UK airline a few years back where the Chief Training "Captain" got a stickshaker during an intermediate stage of approach (no autothrottle) because he was beefing his stude so busily the thrust levers weren't advanced and no one noticed the sound and attitude was changing, almost incredible but it can happen.
Last edited by Agaricus bisporus; 8th Jul 2013 at 13:33.