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Article: Major Anderson: "This moment, this flight".(airplane accident avoidance; narrative)(Brief Article)
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- Flying Safety
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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The aviation world was focused on a 747 pilot, a typhoon, and a collision on takeoff roll. I was focused on myself, an altimeter error, and 299 people aboard a 777. Same day, same hemisphere, two pilots, two errors, one lucky, and one not so lucky.
My first flight safety article had been published fifteen years earlier. I had "talked the talk" and "walked the walk" on flight safety for twenty-plus years, and I had covered the flight safety bases in the Air Force business, as well as the airline business. I routinely left my ego at home with my wife and two sons. I had taught "error management" at a major airline for two years, and I had long ago accepted and ...