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Plane Crashes and Human Error

air crash in Arkansas, that occurred in 1999 was blamed on pilot error due to a poor decision to land "in a severe thunderstorm" (...

Salvage Law and Government Property in US Waters

is agreeable to turning the plane over to the Navy but only if he is at least reimbursed the money that he has been out recovering...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Human Error in Aviation Accidents

can included things like incorrect flight adjustments, incorrect equipment use, and poor skills in emergency reaction. Because of...

Cognitive Psychology and Human Error

so resulting in an error (Reason, 1990). Neville (2001) clarifies that there are other distinctions between errors as well which ...

Aviation Maintenance

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

Culture and its Relation to Aviation Disasters

867 Humans, by their very nature, are not infallible....

Delta Flight 191 Crash and Rescue Operations

following the crash when all the pieces of Flight 191 finally came to rest, all was quiet momentarily. At first it was...

College Rugby Plane Crash in the Andes on October 13, 1972 and the Survival of 16 People

In five pages this report considers the amazing survival of sixteen members of a Uruguay college rugby team for 72 days following ...

A Look at Cannibalism as a Ritual and as a Means of Survival

In this paper, the author explores cannibalism from a ritualistic perspective and then takes a look at those who must take part in...

A Review of Alive by Piers Paul Read

they are high in the Andes, where no food is to be had. We could, in reality, have a story that would read like "Lord of the Flies...

Human Factors in Aircraft Repairs

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

Argument: It is Time to Change Visual Flight Rules

This 10 page paper argues that investigations of airplane crashes can be impeded by current VFR regulations. The crash of JFK Jr. ...

Crash: Film Analysis

and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...

Overview of Pilot Error

In eleven pages this paper discusses pilot error and considers reasons behind airplane crashes that result and offers problem solu...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Writers and Typical Errors in Grammar

words is that the word two is a number and the word too also refers to amount (as in the phrase too many). Though the greatest co...

How to Avoid Plagiarism

New England also maintained the boat building industry (Hall, 1999). "The boat builders of the 18th century were some of the most...

Changes Brought About by the 1929 Crash of the Stock Market

do remember stories about it. It was the one where people lost everything. Some committed suicide. Some lived in despair. Others m...

Business and Free Trade

a while, products all look alike and quality declines. Consumers will buy them or they will not; in any case producers are able t...

Flight 261 Alaska Airlines Crash

In a paper consisting of nine pages the cause of this tragic crash by the horizontal stabilizer failure of a jackscrew gimbal nut ...

History of U.S. Aviation and Terrorism

a little less safe. While talk of terrorism when a passenger jet went down in Lockerbie, Scotland was in the air, no one expected ...

Flight 800 TWA Crash Analyzed

could arc near a tank and cause an explosion (1998). After reviewing the Flight 800 disaster, the National Transportation Safety B...

Korean Airlines Flight 801 Crash and Associated Human Factors

In eight pages this 1997 crash is examined in terms of the human factors that contributed to it based upon the NTSB's official det...

Type I and Type II Errors and Statistical Testing Uses

to third world countries where there are problems such as hunger and famine. The development of foods that need lesser levels of w...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Reducing Errors in Research

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...