Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
I'll side with the NTSB and FAA. They were livid with the LGA incident. The captain kept everyone in a very dangerous situation by keeping them onboard a plane that had just crashed. They should have evacuated immediately. That is a very dark stain on Delta and their crews. Not questioning the captain has led to thousands of deaths and that attitude is very dangerous. Air crews are supposed to work as a team. You are supposed to speak up if you think something is wrong.
Ok, but context is everything. In this particular instance:
1. The FA unprofessionally challenged the captain in front of pax because he/she thought the situation was
not emergent or dangerous.
2. The captain was attempting to get pax off the plane, not keep them on.
3. Again, at best, both the captain and FA were not acting professionally. At worst, something was going on we don't know about and the FA is the one putting more people in danger.
So, sure, if I'm in a plane crash and the captain is telling me to stay on the plane or not saying anything at all after he just drove it off a runway, I might be more willing to question his/her judgment than when the plane is quietly sitting at the gate but suddenly the captain announces that he needs everyone off. Then again, I have no idea what I would actually do in a plane crash, so maybe not.
Also, FWIW, during that LGA incident, the NTSB also partially faulted the FAs for abandoning their posts, which complicated the crew's ability to communicate as the intercoms had failed.