Originally Posted by dera

People rather hide their mistakes than report them because there is no just culture, you'll just get fired. AA WO ramp operations are atrocious, this accident could have happened at any time, at any station. But it is the fault of management, not the guys doing the work who are underpaid, underappreciated and undertrained. In this case, they will just fire the crew chief but nothing will be fixed. I filed 2 ASAPs for ramp behavior that was suicidal, and the amount of reports and phone calls I had, I long ago lost track of them. CPO answer always was that there's nothing they can do.Maybe they start caring now that someone died.