Originally Posted by
btwissel
and if you mean intl airlines CRM is better, i'm not sure how "keep your piehole shut, i'm the captain!" constitutes better CRM (see KLM Tenerife)
That was the '70s. I can assure you it is different nowadays exactly because of accidents like that and in particular that accident.
Also, it's not much different today in some airplanes.
We had one (who is thankfully no longer with our company) who told the F/O he was flying when the F/O was still in diapers. That was when he basically closed the whole NYC airspace because of his own incompetence.
Anyway, thankfully the whole concept of CRM and what it is has improved a lot in the past 20 years.
Oh, and FWIW, even though my aviation roots are in Europe, I still think the US has the safest aviation there is. But there are still things we can learn from them. And them from us.