The limits of expertise: rethinking pilot error and the causes of airline accidents
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dismukes, Key (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot Ashgate ©2007
Series:Ashgate studies in human factors for flight operations
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 USAir 1016 -- Windshear Encounter; 2 TWA 843 -- The Power of Suggestion; 3 American 1572 -- Accumulation of Small Errors; 4 American International 808 -- The Strobe Light that Wasn't There; 5 Southwest 1455 -- Unstabilized Approach at Burbank; 6 FedEx 14 -- Pilot-Induced Oscillations in the Landing Flare; 7 Ryan 590 -- A Minute Amount of Contamination; 8 Tower 41 -- Loss of Control During a Slippery Runway Takeoff; 9 Continental 1943 -- Gear-Up Landing in Houston
The Limits of Expertise reports a study of the 19 major U.S. airline accidents from 1991-2000 in which the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found crew error to be a causal factor. Each accident is reported in a separate chapter that examines events and crew actions and explores the cognitive processes in play at each step
Physical Description:vi, 352 pages
ISBN:9780754685746
0754685748
9780754649649
9780754649656
0754649644
0754649652

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