Establishing a safety culture in the organization is the most effective means of safety assurance in the long term. Humans play a vital role in the...
Safety Matters Foundations presents mindFly blog
Optical phenomenon called ‘Glory’ and ‘Chimera”
Glory Have you ever been flying over a cloud deck and noticed a rainbow halo around the shadow of your airplane? Besides being pretty to look...
Risk perception: my presentation at the Flight Safety Foundation conference
My presentation at the Flight Safety Foundation conference at Singapore
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Thai cleared for takeoff with Air India still on the runway, what the investigators missed out at Delhi incident
Interestingly, there was a bigger surprise waiting when I read the report. Apparently, the Thai Airways aircraft was cleared for takeoff from Runway...
Startle vs Surprise and flight crew training
Background Startle and surprise are often cited as potentially contributing factors to aircraft incidents due to their possible negative effects on flight crew performance. In the past, these terms have often been used interchangeably; however, there are distinctive conceptual, behavioural, and physiological differences between the startle reflex and the surprise emotion. The prevalence of startle and surprise on the flight deck has been investigated by examining voluntary incident reports in the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). Surprise has been found to be more prevalent than startle.
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It takes two to tango, Jet Airways runway excursion analysis
The root cause of this event was the initial difficulty to control the aircraft laterally due to the rapid asymmetric thrust increase at low speed....
GoAir passengers survived a wrong engine shutdown, where British Midland and TransAsia couldn’t
Errors in Aviation Decision making, bad decisions or bad luck!
