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Originally Posted by TheFly
What about the 2 other pilots in the Jumpseat at Asiana? So were they not just as responsible as the PF and PM?
Well, no, the PIC is going to be the one ultimately responsible. I know of many cases where something bad has happened and most of the fallout is on the PIC as far as certificate actions and sanctions and the SIC gets by with either nothing or comparatively almost nothing (no certificate action), and that's for a required crewmember. If it's a non-required crewmember, unless they are interfering with the flight crew, there's no "responsibility" there, except for your own survival and safety, which IMO trumps everything else anyway.
Now, as stated elsewhere, you better be familiar with that airplane/airline procedures before you say something that may not affect safety. If it's critically important (fire, something exceeding a defined limit, unsafe sink rate or location), then you gotta make that call. You are correct that you (or I) will be interviewed and someone will ask, "didn't you see it? Why did you not say anything?". There may not be anything enforceable there, but it'll look really bad. IMO, this is part of why you are paid the big bucks, to make this call on what is important and affects safety, and what is not.
The simple way to think about it is this IMO: if something bad is about to happen, you want your voice on that CVR.