Kangaroo Court
8th Mar 2008, 02:12
In Eugen Tarnow , PhD's paper, Towards The Zero Accident Goal: Assisting The First Officer Monitor and Challenge Captain Errors, A case study on page eight of the report deals with a specific accident of Northwest Airlink 5719. The crash was, like all crashes, caused by several factors including a captain that exercised poor crew coordination of an unstabilised approach. One other factor the report alludes to is the huge differential in experience between the captain and first officer and the hierachal scale being skewed by a general disrespect of the first officer's input. Understandably, an additional concern of the report is excessive obedience on the part of the first officer.
Is this part of the future of a public report in Australia?
"The first officer, on the other hand, was a new probationary employee who had just spent $8,500 of his own money to be trained for a job that provided an earning potential...(not much in the first year)" (page 9)
The accident was fatal to all occupants of the scheduled airline service albeit of a turbo-prop British Aerospace variant.
Is it time for us to ask the serious question as to whether applicants paying for an opportunity to fly for a nationally recognised airline and gaining opportunities over and above those with more than the minimum requirements should be allowed to participate in such a high stakes potential risk?
I leave this as an open question and invite all to participate in an opinion as to whether this affects the future of air safety in Australia.
Kangaroo Court
Is this part of the future of a public report in Australia?
"The first officer, on the other hand, was a new probationary employee who had just spent $8,500 of his own money to be trained for a job that provided an earning potential...(not much in the first year)" (page 9)
The accident was fatal to all occupants of the scheduled airline service albeit of a turbo-prop British Aerospace variant.
Is it time for us to ask the serious question as to whether applicants paying for an opportunity to fly for a nationally recognised airline and gaining opportunities over and above those with more than the minimum requirements should be allowed to participate in such a high stakes potential risk?
I leave this as an open question and invite all to participate in an opinion as to whether this affects the future of air safety in Australia.
Kangaroo Court