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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Human Error

Author : Rolf Wiedemann

Published in: Human Factors on the Flight Deck

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Pilot error–human error–operating error–fatigue–these are all terms we hear about and read about over and over again in connection with hazardous events and even accidents. They all allude to the facts and may shed light on different aspects related to the cause but, at the same time, they insinuate that a person made a mistake while operating a machine.

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Footnotes
1
The factor indicates just how much the probability of error for a specific activity increases when the referenced condition exists.
 
2
Poisonous gas discharges from a chemical factory in Bhopal, India in 1984 resulted in over 20,000 deaths.
 
3
The worst accident in the history of aviation resulted in 583 deaths in 1977.
 
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Metadata
Title
Human Error
Author
Rolf Wiedemann
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Human Factors on the Flight Deck

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-31732-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-31733-0

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31733-0_3

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