Human Factors and Mishaps

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Human factors are being considered to mitigate identified hazards that happen within the airline industry. No one throughout the aviation industry has dismissed the human factor as an issue in regards to hazards in flight. Human error accounts for a significant amount of problems found in flights and landings around the globe. While there are various ways that humans have helped with the safety of a flight, they can also negatively impact simply because of lack of knowledge.
Many organizations have failed to factor in human knowledge is this very basic aspect to flying a plane. This can effect the safety of a flight dramatically simply because of knowing how to handle the equipment that they have been put in front of. Human knowledge is one of the greatest factors of them all. A person is inherently able to pick up on social behavior and learn between right and wrong. Much of what a person learns is taught to them by the age of five. From there, a person attends school and various training programs to learn about specific topics in order to gain knowledge. This will allow a person to continue throughout life in an educated manner.
Flying a plane is not something that anyone can learn simply by reading a book. There are countless types of planes that a pilot can fly and training is required on each one. While a pilot who knows how to fly a Cessna 152 could flight a Boeing 757, they would be able do so safely without additional flight training because of the various differences in equipment, the controls, and the overall handling of the aircraft.
These controls are already in place to take into consideration the human factor of knowledge for mitigating hazards that can take place throughout the industry. However, it is the technolog...

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