Pax Boy
You share my views on the priorities and capabilities of much senior management today. Unable to make any judgments without reducing everything to numbers-a process fraught with errors and lack of any specialist knowledge about the operations of a company.
I wonder how many big airline CEOs could actually recognise the different aircraft types they operated let alone the inner workings of the flight deck.
More on track for this thread it is interesting to se the approach of more modern UK coroners-for years it was an open verdict on pretty much anything now we have people like this individual making a bold and serious statement and the people involved in the re analysis of the Hillsborough tragedy taking an equally forthright approach. All that's aid though I was pretty shocked that an experienced AF FO managed to get trapped into the AF447 situation -I would have expected better but I suppose that's easy to say from behind my desk rather than a lonely dark flight deck in mid atlantic turbulence.