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Old 22nd Jul 2013, 15:18
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sheppey
 
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Zero CRM & an inability to take control when required by PIC.
Thread drift coming up. Methinks the term CRM gets bandied around too much and is meaningless in the context of this particular accident. One pilot is doing the flying and stuffs things up. The others watch and do nothing until someone sings out in the last few seconds probably from the awful realisation they are about to crash. The CVR records someone muttered something about go-around seconds before the 777 stalled on the runway. At least whoever sung out has covered his own arse and its on the CVR.

CRM is generally all about using the resources available. The pilot flying was not exactly in the position where he could ask their advice on what he should do to stop the crash. After all he was an experienced qualified pilot. How many people does he want offering their "advice" in the cockpit when as far as they were concerned he was a bit slow on the uptake. CRM was designed to offset the theoretical one-man-band pilot. He was not a one man band, but just someone who had simply lost the plot.

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