Originally Posted by
SebastianDesoto
The worst accidents were the result of complacency, not because soomeone was flying or had to fly outside the typical profile. How about crossing a runway? Ignoring a faulty glide slope when the ATIS says the glide slope is OTS? Punching in a fix on the FMS that guides you into a mountain?
These are the things produce the real tragedies.
Sure there's an element of complacency in that accident...but it was a latent failure in training. Their complacency manifested itself in their inability to properly execute the required emergency procedures, long before they even got to the airport.
Beyond that, I'd say the bulk of this was a series of serious lapses in judgment and
active failures. If the NTSB findings were correct, complacency may have been a link in the chain, but it sure wasn't the nail in the coffin. These two guys overdrafted their accounts big time, and they did it with conscious mistakes.