Posted by Jamal Spelling on February 15, 2008, at 11:42:20
In reply to Emotional abuse, posted by Jamal Spelling on February 15, 2008, at 10:19:25
In 1977, the biggest accident in aviation history took place in the Spanish island of Tenerife, when a KLM Boeing 747 collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747 and 583 people were killed.
This accident occured because the KLM airliner was not cleared for take-off. The KLM crew had received ambiguously phrased instructions from the air traffic control which they erroneously interpreted as clearance for take-off.
At some stage during the take-off procedure however, the second officer Willem Schreuder realised they did not have take-off clearance, and informed the captain (Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten) and first officer (Klass Meurs) of his concern. The captain and first officer impatiently dismissed his objection, later resulting in the largest accident in aviation history.
Sometimes I feel like Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten is my thesis supervisor and I am second officer Willem Schreuder. My ideas and concerns are simply dismissed by supposedly more competent people.
This accident led to the introduction of CRM (Crew Resource Management) in commercial airline cockpits, which states that important flight decisions have to be taken collaboratively.
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