Important Questions for Safety Culture
This New Year’s celebration was filled with pride for the aviation industry because we heard that 2017 was the safest year on record for commercial air travel. The following week, news about the grounding of two senior pilots of a London-Mumbai flight surfaced in the headlines because of a fight in the cockpit, and subsequently, both came out of the cockpit, leaving the aircraft unmanned.
Expert discussion threads on social media surrounding this incident were filled with anger and many of them blamed cultural factors, although the exact cause of the incident is still unknown to us.