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-Graham R. Braithwaite asked:
>CAN ANYONE IN THE GROUP NAME AN AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT THAT HAS >NOT HAD A HUMAN
>FACTORS CAUSAL FACTOR AS PART OF IT?
I think you'd be hard-pressed to ascribe the DH Comet accidents of the early
'50s to Human Factors. Ditto the United Flight 232 DC10 crash (often
referred to as 'Sioux City').
Regards
Alex. (NOT speaking for Eurocontrol)
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Depends, I think, on how far back from the accident you want to go to find
the human factors as causal. Perhaps it is carrying the point to an extreme,
but the designer, builder, mechanic, etc. can be the human factor that puts
the crew into a position from which they cannot recover. The problems there
may not be CRM related, but they sure are human factors. I reckon that the
human factor issue goes beyond the cockpit; CRM?
Regards . . .
Dave Wilson
HTI