Originally Posted by
Lookleft
So with the Norfolk Island crash, was it right for the report to put the blame on the crew? From memory there was much outrage that in this day and age the crew, who were at the end of a long organisational chain of factors, were considered to be the sole reason for the ditching. I really don't see in this report that the crew are getting .
The report is just reinforcing how a well trained crew dealing with a non-normal was able to make a safe landing.
You're conflating a finding to the effect that mistakes were made by an individual with a finding that the individual was entirely to blame for an accident. They are different things.
The PIC of NGA has never denied that he made mistakes. But lots of the other holes in the Swiss cheese were drilled by systemic failures and mistakes made by other people, which circumstances increased substantially the scope for the PIC to make mistakes.