Fatigue and related human factors in the near crash of a large military aircraft

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 963-970

  Armentrout, Jeffrey J ^a,d   Holland, Dwight A ^b   O'Toole, Kevin J ^b   Ercoline, William R ^c  

^a San Antonio River Authority   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Wyle Laboratories ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft stall; Aviation human factors; Crew resource management; Fatigue; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISORIENTATION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AWARENESS; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFUSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33748259481     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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