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Pilot Error
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Pilot Error
Analyses the role of human mistakes in aircraft accidents. Examines types, causes and examples.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
4 sources |
1989
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""Pilot Error" is the identified cause of a large fraction of aircraft accidents, and the role of pilot error (and other human errors, e.g. by ground controllers) is tending to increase as improvements in aircraft design, weather forecasting, and other technical areas of aviation reduce the role of structure failures and other "unavoidable" causes of aviation mishaps. By the 1970s, fifty-five percent of accidents were attributed to pilot error (Hurst 13). Clearly, the human factor, in various forms, plays an ever increasing role in air accidents.Human error may take many forms, from gross displays of bad airmanship to unconscious errors which can be attributed to fatigue or to unconscious perceptual errors. When human error is identified as the primary or contributory cause of an accident, our principal concern is not to fix blame, but to identify (...)"
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