r than captains vary within respect to the contention that CRM, as opposed to the traditional concept of the captain as the single decision-maker in the cockpit, will lead to increased in-flight safety during emergency conditions?
3. Do the perceptions captains and cockpit personnel other than captains vary within respect to the contention that captains should have the authority to suspend CRM during in-flight emergency conditions?
The principal limitation of the proposed study will be that it will involve only the assessment of support for and opposition to the CRM concept among cockpit personnel, based on an assumption that such support and opposition would be manifested over the long-term in to either success or failure of the CRM concept in the airline industry. This approach to the research is dictated by the practicalities of the situation, which will preclude the conduct of an experimental study in which the actual effects of the CRM c
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