This is an old post but on rereading it I just had to comment. I flew Swissair for decades to and from Canada during my diplomatic career. My respect for their professionalism took a serious hit when a Swissair plane flying from NY to Switzerland crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Later investigations showed that the senior pilot overruled his junior copilot in refusing to dump their fuel over the ocean and heading straight into Halifax to land when a fire broke out onboard. Instead, the pilot flew around a great circle before approaching the airport, thus losing precious time, and before the plane could land, the smoke and heat had forced the crew in the cockpit to abandon it, thus leaving the plane pilotless and doomed to crash in the ocean off Peggy's Cove.
The other comment I would make is that doctors have been known to panic in the OR when things went awry. The nurses observe it but nothing is said. The old saying, Doctors bury their mistakes, reflects reality.