Inadvertent Errors
Cognitive limitations in human perception, attention, memory and decision making play a role in many aviation accidents.
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Posts Categorized: Human Factors
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Fatigue, Aviation Research, Human Factors
Different Strokes
Researchers say long-haul pilots face a different set of sleep-related problems than their short- and medium-haul colleagues.
Fitness for Duty, Aviation Research, Human Factors
No Clear Pattern
Research fails to identify ways of predicting or preventing pilot suicides and murders.
Fitness for Duty, Human Factors
The Rogue Pilot Phenomenon
Safety specialists inevitably struggle to comprehend murder and/or suicide attributed to a flight crewmember.
How Can Pilots Manage Surprise in Highly Automated Airliners?
Knowing how pilots will respond to surprising and confusing events may someday make the difference in the industry’s training programs. Using operational experience data to drive airlines safety programs is common, but…
Loss of Control–In Flight (LOC-I), Human Factors
When the Mind Plays Tricks
The ongoing problem of spatial disorientation impacts all segments of aviation.
Human Factors, Threat Analysis
Fatigue in Corporate Culture
Common-sense recognition of everyday threats and self-auditing are first steps to making effective changes.
Fatigue, Aviation Medicine, Human Factors
The Link Between Weight and Sleep
Aeromedical group endorses sleep apnea screening for the most obese pilots.
Mechanical Issues, Accident Investigation, Causal Factors, Human Factors
Fast Fixes
U.K. AAIB cites maintenance human factors after Airbus A319 fan cowling doors detach during takeoff.
Normalization of Deviance
United Airlines equates casual noncompliance with stabilized approach criteria to NASA’s acceptance of risks before the final launch of space shuttle Challenger.