Familiarity Breeds Complacency
AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck
English - October 15, 2018 08:00 - 24 minutes - 45 MB - ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAviation Leisure aviationsafety aviation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Pilot complacency during preflight inspection nearly led to disaster on a brisk October day in 2008. As an experienced flight crew readying for a short repositioning hop on that crystal clear morning neglected one simple, but crucial task, it soon placed them and their aircraft in danger. What would lead veteran pilots to make such a novice mistake, and how can such similar errors be prevented?