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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SKYbrary offers a useful database of accident reports that are useful for CRM case studies
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This case study by Rebecca Lougheed on The Aviation Space, looks at an incident from September 10th, 2023, when an Air China A320NEO carried out an emergency landing into WSSS/Singapore Changi international airport after the flight deck and cabin filled with smoke. The focus of the case study is on the communications, because as Lougheed points out they were good and not so good, and as ever provide lessons we can all learn from.
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Takeoff incident on a dark foggy night, situation awareness and communication case study
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This accident is an example of how poor workload management affects situation awareness.
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The team at #Aeroassurance bring us this excellent and detailed case study into the USAF accident of one of their tiltrotor CV-22B Osprey aircraft in 2023. This is an interesting case study as it includes an interesting mix of the technical and non-technical aspects of the investigation. Aeroassurance also comment on the organisational aspects of the findings, including some criticism of the USAF Accident Investigation Board because of the significant focus of the investigation on crew actions instead of organisational failings.
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