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Interesting, are you referring to this;

  On July 28, 2010 
  an Airbus A321 belonging to the Pakistani airline Airblue crashed on 
  its approach to Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board. 
  The weather at Islamabad was poor with deteriorating visibility; a 
  PIA flight had only managed to get down on its third attempt, and 
  a flight from China had turned back. But Captain Pervez Chaudhry, 
  with 35 years and more than 25,000 hours in the cockpit, was cleared 
  for landing. He ended up flying straight into a hill – having ignored 
  21 ground proximity ‘pull up’ warnings related to the rising terrain 
  he was approaching. The official report painted a damning picture 
  of  the captain. The CVR showed that he had belittled his co-pilot 
  – a former Pakistani air force F16 pilot and squadron leader, but a 
  man with only a year’s civilian flying behind him – by lecturing him 
  and firing questions at him during the initial climb, and using ‘harsh 
  words and a snobbish tone towards him’ during the rest of  the flight. 
  As a result, by the time disaster approached, the first officer had gone 
  into his shell, and ‘remained a passive bystander in the cockpit, failing 
  to supplement and compliment or to correct the errors of  his captain 
  assertively due to the captain’s behaviour in the flight.’ The result of  
  Chaudhry’s arrogance and hubris was horrific.

Actually, I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

As with the example you gave, though, a key reason for the crash was that "The flight engineer's and the first officer's apparent hesitation to challenge Veldhuyzen van Zanten further", leading to over 500 fatalities.

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