Jazz...Agreed! as I said I have flown with these guys.
"one look out back and they'd see the engines were not there" REALLY. you can't even see the wings from the flight deck how do you think that one can see the engines?
It is too bad that more people/insurance companies/ FAA/ JAA don't have a better understanding of the culture which exists in these countries. We look at this accident through 'Western eyes', go fly in Asia for a while and you will see that that our understanding of CRM is non existent in these parts of the world...to quote a very famous human factors expert "CRM is a child of the West"