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From: Jaap vd Heide
Date: 2012 Jan 25, 00:19 -0800
The most notably being the decision to take off (without clear consent by air traffic control and doubts among his crew) by KLM captain/company chief-instructor Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten on March 27 1977.
583 casualties was more than enough to have the civil aviation industry reduce the absoluteness of a captains authority.
Frank wrote:
"That's a good question. In commercial aviation, as I understand it, there was a major push starting a few decades ago to give the copilot more authority to question the captain in the cockpit. Not just by rules and regulation, but by training. A number of deadly accidents were blamed in part on crew members too timid or too respectful to speak up to the captain."
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