There have been ‘culture crashes’...
In Hispanic cultures the strict respect for ‘elites’ was causing the second in command to NOT tell the first officer of a problem if the comment had already been rejected once. The solution was to enforce an ‘English only’ rule in the cockpit.
“In Hispanic cultures the strict respect for ‘elites’ was causing the second in command to NOT tell the first officer of a problem if the comment had already been rejected once. The solution was to enforce an ‘English only’ rule in the cockpit.”
You mean like the KLM-Pan Am crash at Tenerife, where the KLM First Officer questioned the Captain’s decision to take off and the Dutch Captain responded by saying “We’re going!’