It's ironic that after every one of these tragedies pages and pages of often conflicting and seldom useful rules and regulations are examined in excruciating detail. But nowhere in this morass is there anything even close to a definition of what constitutes good airmanship and captaincy. Having a concrete grasp of these 2 components of professional aviation in the first place often avoids the need to further analyze this mass of seemingly abstract and remote legal concepts.