Human factors : FAA's guidance and oversight of pilot crew resource management training can be improved

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Crew Resource Management Flight Training Human Factors Human Factors In Accidents Oversight Pilot Studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/RCED-98-7
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. General Accounting Office
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness ; NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Human Factors ; NTL-AVIATION-AVIATION
• Abstract:
  Of the 169 accidents that involved the major airlines and that were
  
  investigated and reported on in detail by the National Transportation
  
  Safety Board from 1983 through 1995, about 30 percent were caused in
  
  part by the pilots’ performance, according to our analysis. In at least
  
  one-third of these accidents (about 15), we determined that the pilots did
  
  not correctly use the principles of crew resource management. For
  
  example, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, just
  
  before the 1994 crash in Charlotte, North Carolina, which killed 37 people,
  
  the aircraft had encountered a sudden change in wind direction and the
  
  captain gave an incorrect order to the first officer, who did not question
  
  the order, as crew resource management principles would require.
  
  Furthermore, during the same period, of the nearly 4,000 incidents, we
  
  found that about one-fifth were caused in part by the pilots’ performance.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/24000/24700/24716/rc98007.pdf
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9163fb61afe8442725c94c35b0e4796d48a590cd1ed80e90ba5bf7c019ceabad
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16114/dot_16114_DS1.pdf
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