How prepared is your pilot to deal with an emergency?
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
Pilots receive extensive training on effectively handling emergency situations that may arise in the cockpit. However, during several recent highly-publicized airline incidents, the pilots neglected to apply the skills they learned in training, resulting in fatal crashes. Were these accidents simply rare exceptions? A study published in Human Factors investigates whether current pilot emergency training practices are effective in mitigating airline disasters.