“...And we were tired”: fatigue and aircrew errors

Author

Ritter, Richard D.

Author_Institution

NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

357

Abstract

Cooper, White, and Lauber (quoted in C.E. Billings and W.D. Reynard, 1984) analyzed jet-transport accidents worldwide for the period 1968 to 1976 and found more than 60 in which breakdowns of the crew performance and decision-making process played a pivotal role. The author of the present work argues that the results reported by Cooper et al. are related to fatigue and that fatigue is related to sleep deprivation, circadian desynchronosis, and lack of good nutrition. It is further argued, and supporting research is cited, that fatigue does not cause loss of skill in flying the aircraft but may have disastrous effects on judgmental and decision-making functions

Keywords

accidents; aircraft; human factors; man-machine systems; safety; 1968 to 1976; breakdowns; circadian desynchronosis; crew performance; decision-making; decision-making process; fatigue; jet-transport accidents; judgmental functions; loss of skill; nutrition; sleep deprivation; sleep quality; Aerospace safety; Air accidents; Automatic speech recognition; Decision making; Electric breakdown; Error correction; Fatigue; Human factors; NASA; Sleep;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA 11th

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0820-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1992.282132

Filename

282132