The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents
Beaty, David
First Edition
"Although considerable progress has been made in increasing the reliability of airplanes, very little has been accomplished in reducing the element of human error in aircraft accidents."
So said the first International Civil Aviation Organisation's first volume of accident reports seventeen years ago. But in the interim the view that human error accidents are inevitable has prevailed. It is this view that David Beaty attacks in The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents. Investigating into an almost totally unexplored area, he has related aircraft accidents to known psychological concepts of fatigue, perception, laterality, conflict, frustration, learning and decision-taking.
This book takes a cool scientific look at the whole problem. Not at all sensational, but none the less of exciting interest, it teils the stories of aircraft accidents and interprets them in psychological terms. And at the same time, it suggests the prospect that, if psychological factors were properly investigated and better understood, a considerable cut would be effected in the now, rising aircraft accident rate.
David Beaty is uniquely qualified to write this book. A Squadron Leader in the RAF, he completed four tours of operations and won the DFC and Bar, finishing his military career in charge of training in a heavy transport squadron. A Senior Captain in BOAC, he flew thousands of hours over the world, mainly in command of four-engined aircraft. As an author, he has achieved a world-wide reputation for novels with a psychological as well as an aviation background, which have been best-sellers here and in America and have been translated into eleven languages. The Proving Flight and The Wind Off the Sea were Book Society choices. Cone of Silence was filmed. He recently read psychology at London University, spent two years postgraduate study into aviation psychology, and served for nine months as a member of a team investigating aviation workload. He has been on the staff of the College of Air Training, is an associate member of the British Air Line Pilots' Association, and a Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Hardcover with dust jacket
196 Seiten / pages
few illustrations
a good reading copy
London - 1969 - Martin Secker & Warburg
Art.Nr. 25515
