> The internal investigation into the incident laid the blame partially upon Captain Bob Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal, who should have observed the Minimum Equipment List (MEL) and grounded the aircraft since it lacked functioning fuel gauges. Some of the responsibility was also assigned to the maintenance workers, and to “corporate deficiencies.” As a consequence Pearson was briefly demoted, and Quintal was suspended for two weeks. Nonetheless both pilots continued to work for Air Canada, and in 1985 they received the well-deserved Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Diploma for Outstanding Airmanship for their handling of the unusual landing.
Interesting. What kind of demotion did Boeing or Air Canada receive?
Air Canada changed their pilot training, changed several manuals and documents, standardizing the fuel weight units (which was already in process), changed the circuit breaker, established a flight safety organization, and changed fueling procedures.
The story does not say if any person responsible for those parts got any negative consequences, thought one can hope that the hunt for blame was short. It usually doesn't serve to improve security, and in this case there was a long list of consecutive mistakes by a large number of people that allowed for the accident to happen. Among those were also a culture of overriding the Minimum Equipment List, something which Canada had outlawed 5 years before this accident.
Interesting. What kind of demotion did Boeing or Air Canada receive?