So you've never flown to Antarctica before, but you get sent down there to do a sightseeing flight. The target area is covered in a low overcast. You get offered and accept a radar letdown, but then elect to descend VMC down to 2000' then 1500' presumably because of failure to establish VHF comms (without really discussing it with the wider crew). You don't plot your position beforehand, nor even mention the multiple sources of high terrain known to be in the area. Your flight engineer asks "where's Erebus in relation to us/I'm just thinking about high ground in the area". This doesn't elicit a response from yourself or your F/O. At 1500' faced with whiteout conditions you fly on for two minutes having recently mentioned "it's hard to tell the difference between cloud and ice". Then you crash your aircraft into the ground on Ross Island with the loss of 257 lives.
Megan said
what is moronic is not learning from those that go before.
So megan - you are either saying there is nothing to be learned from the actions of this flight crew as described above, or are calling yourself a moron. Which is it?