Mario Pierobon draws lessons from a fatal Hawker 800 crash to highlight why thorough briefings and crew coordination should be a central part of any flight operations’ CRM Training.
This article by Alex Pollitt recounts a serious inflight emergency after multiple, interacting failures, including smoke in the cockpit, loss of control inputs, engine overspeed and confusing indications. The author looks at how the flight crew were forced to handle ‘interactive complexity’ to recover the situation.
Mentour Pilot is a widely followed aviation YouTube channel that explains aircraft operations, industry procedures, accident/incident histories, and pilot life from an insider perspective. It is a rich source of case studies for CRM training because many episodes analyse real incidents where communication breakdowns, decision-making errors, situational awareness lapses, or teamwork dynamics played key roles.
Hosted by airline pilot and safety investigator Nicolaus Dmoch (M.Sc.), the Essence of Safety podcast takes deep dives into accident case studies to uncover the often overlooked underlying causes.
On 24 September 2022, a Leonardo AW139 of ERA Helicopters, was involved in a dramatic accident near Houma, Louisiana from which the two pilots and four passengers emerged uninjured. It was an outstanding example of how when faced with a complex and ambiguous emergency effective CRM can make the difference.
Faced with smoke in the cockpit, seized flight controls, and engines that would only output maximum power, the crew managed to work together to get the crippled aircraft back to the field by cycling the engines from flight to idle, and then achieved an engines off landing to the runway.
SKYbrary offers a useful database of accident reports that are useful for CRM case studies