Why Does My Cat Chew Blankets?

HUMAN FACTORS (in aviation): The proportion of people with their work environments.
not the resources that the organization uses, but its driving force.

The human element is the most flexible and adaptable organization, as well as the most vulnerable.

Aviation Accident (Tenerife 1977) the largest in history.
From there arises the need to practice HUMAN FACTORS ... PREVIOUS

: Tenerife is full of fog. The clouds accumulate around the extinct volcano Pico de Teide and spread a sudden strange mist through of the holiday island of the Atlantic. On Sunday March 27, 1977 was very cloudy.
A pump, installed by terrorists of the liberation movement of the Canary Islands, had exploded in a shop in the airport of Las Palmas in the nearby island of Gran Canaria, and aircraft were being diverted from Las Palmas to Santa Cruz. Among them were two Boeing 747 jumbo jets, the flight line 4805 Dutch KLM, from Amsterdam, and 1736 of Pan Am flight, from Los Angeles and New York.

Three air traffic controllers on duty at the control tower were eleven aircraft on the ground, all waiting for clearance to take off. But his main concerns were rapidly thickening fog had reduced visibility to 500 meters, and the runway lights were not working. To compound the confusion, two of the three radio frequencies from the airport were out of action and the pilots had to speak to the microphone drivers often the only one left. The stage was set for disaster ...