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December 2011 - Volume 6

Looking Without Seeing
“Expectation bias” was probably at work when the first officer mistakenly called out a flap setting of 11 degrees during the final pre-takeoff check. The takeoff warning system did not function, and the pilots were unable to control the aircraft when it stalled after lift-off with the loss of 154 lives.


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