Ask the pilot: Malcolm Gladwell claims cultural issues can play a big role in plane crashes. The …

It takes a certain moxie to criticize someone as bright and successful as Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker staff writer and author of the bestsellers "Blink" and "The Tipping Point." But there's a segment in Gladwell's newest book, "Outliers: The Story of Success," that leaves me quizzical. The segment explores the January 1990 accident in which a Colombian jetliner crashed on Long Island, N.Y.,… » Full Story on Salon.com