Eastern Airlines Flight 401, the Asiana crash at SFO, the recent AirAsia crash in Indonesia, etc. In each of these accidents none of the multiple crew members detected that something was wrong until it was too late.
I don't believe that theory at all. I believe certainly in the Asian SFO crash that at least two of the pilots saw what was happening (which was poor flying ability by the PF) but their ethnic culture was so dominate that both shut up about what they clearly saw the way things were going (badly) rather than cause loss of face of the PF. Time and again we have seen this in accidents involving cultural mores over-riding flight safety of the crew and unfortunate passengers.
We need to go beyond political correctness and accident investigators need be blunt about this serious problem because history is bound to repeat itself eventually. Mark my words.
