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Schematic of the Dabolim runway: a Navy fighter on its take-off roll from runway 08 while an airliner backtracks towards it after entering from taxiway N2, where the stop bar was off.

Goa’s runway near miss deserves a fuller answer

Three in four European pilots report microsleeps at the controls, ECA survey finds

Legal duty, sleepy cockpit: out of every 100 pilots, 16 sleepy on European day flights (measured), 63 on a legal Indian night duty and 77 on a legal Indian late day (model predictions).

Legal, but sleepy: are India’s pilot duty rules keeping pilots alert?

Cone of visibility

The Cone of Visibility

Approach & Go-Around

Your mind wanders about a third of the time. That’s not the problem.

When the Threat Flies Back: Explosive Drones, Human Factors, and the Limits of Evasion

Ascending flight path rising above a COMPLIANCE floor band; title reads The Floor Is Not the Ceiling.

The Floor Is Not the Ceiling: Why a Culture of Minimum Compliance Fails Safety