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Category: Human Factor

Human factors in aviation: how pilots and crews perceive, decide and err, and how systems, training and design can stop errors from becoming accidents.

Opinion: The Numbers Don't Fly, presented by Safety Matters Foundation. 21 lives lost on Char Dham helicopter routes since October 2022; 55% more pilgrims in IRCTC's 2024 count than the district's; no UCADA accounts published.

The Numbers Don’t Fly: Char Dham helicopter data must be opened up

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?

Illustration: a large grey rhino stands on a night-time runway while a small black swan floats in the glow of the runway lights, under the headline Not a Black Swan. Aviation's Grey Rhinos.

FZ1073: A Grey Rhino, Not a Black Swan

Closing the Insider Gap: The Case for Rapid Implementation of ICAO’s Insider Threat Toolkit

676 feet in Sixty Seconds

Approach & Go-Around

Why we built mindLimits — aviation training, calibrated to thinking, not memorising