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The Australian View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. W. Cumming
R. W. Cumming*
Affiliation:
Human Engineering Group, Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Department of Supply, Australia
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In both civil and military flying take-off and landing accidents represent a major part of all accidents. In both take-off and landing, the problems are becoming more acute with the current change to larger and faster aircraft, and even more significantly with the change to jet engines.

The majority of accidents occurring in these two phases of flight are attributed to “ human error,” or “ pilot's error of judgment,” but recent human engineering studies have shown that in many cases the real cause has been due to the engineering situation overloading the pilot in some way, or requiring him to make judgments based on insufficient information.

Type
Operational Problems of Take-off and Landing
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 588 , December 1959 , pp. 701 - 704
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959

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* U.S.A.F. accident figures for the years 1953-1954 show an undershoot accident rate of 52 per million landings for jets compared with 74 per million landings for piston-engined aircraft.