Human Factors: Tenerife Revisited

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• Creators:
  McCreary, John ; Pollard, Michael ; Stevenson, Kenneth ; Wilson, Marc B.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Aviation safety
  • Aircraft collisions
  • Human error
  • Human factors in crashes
  • Stress (Psychology)
  • Los Rodeos Airport (Canary Islands)
  • Small group communication
  • Small group dynamics
  • Tenerife (Canary Islands)
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Abstract:
  A collision between two 747 jumbo jets occurred at the Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands cost the lives of 583 people. This case study of that collision shows how large scale disasters result from errors made by people in crucial circumstances and the potentially devastating consequences of ineffective human and organizational behavior. This paper focuses on three areas that were the major contributing factors in the accident: stress, small group communication under stress, and small group dynamics. An analysis of the accident in each of these areas determined what measures can be taken to prevent catastrophes of this nature from reoccurring (reengineering for improvement). References. 10p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13937/dot_13937_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 108.46 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cdcf3b02a56187b44a31a8e6876985a32f8acf60fef99eeed2b3af386b155b26fe3e5abf8b3e24c0ecf27d7adddf522d74bb96121a96bc2dc95df2c26d461e6d