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Analysis of how cognitive biases, crew dynamics, fatigue, spatial disorientation, and decision-making errors contribute to aviation accidents.
What makes this particularly significant is that the captain of Thai Airways Flight 261 understood the physics of the pitch-up moment perfectly — he had disconnected the autopilot himself seconds earlier. What he had failed to account for was how differently the aircraft would behave with the auto-t
When Southern Airways Flight 242 departed in April 1977, the National Weather Service had already issued tornado watches and SIGMETs nearly three hours earlier, and the crew's paperwork acknowledged the threat. Yet 20 tornadoes had touched down across Alabama and Georgia, including one directly on t
A LATAM Airlines Brazil Boeing 777 departed Milan Malpensa Airport on July 9, 2024, carrying roughly 100,000 kilograms more than its crew had calculated — a discrepancy equivalent to the weight of 17 adult male African elephants. The error originated in a single dropped digit during pre-flight weigh
On the morning of January 26, 2020, the pilot of the Sikorsky S-76 carrying Kobe Bryant planned a low-altitude VFR route from Santa Ana north through Burbank and Van Nuys airspace before turning west over the Santa Monica Mountains to Camarillo. A National Weather Service AIRMET warning was already
At Blue Grass Airport in 2006, Runway 22 served nearly all commercial traffic — a fully lit, 7,000-foot strip built for airline operations. Running across it sat Runway 26, a 3,500-foot general aviation strip with sparse lighting, half the usable width, and a share of total traffic barely reaching 2
The crew of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 began their descent toward Runway 09 at Tripoli without conducting the thorough approach briefing that standard operating procedures required. Only when the aircraft was already close to the final approach point did the first officer deliver a compressed, imp
Eastern Airlines Flight 853, a Lockheed Constellation cruising at 10,000 feet, and TWA Flight 42, a Boeing 707 descending with 51 passengers and crew aboard, were both estimated to cross the Carmel VOR navigational fix at the same moment — 16:18 — on the afternoon of the collision. The 707's crew, c
The chain of errors that destroyed American Airlines Flight 965 near Cali, Colombia, began with a single misread radio clearance. When the Cali approach controller cleared the crew to proceed via the ROZO 1 Standard Terminal Arrival Route — instructing them to report passing the TULUA VOR — the capt