Originally Posted by
Ian W
Thanks Kal, not being kind - being realistic. Pilots should all learn from this incident because the same WILL happen to them at some time. Unfortunately, as you will have seen many of the posts on this thread have started with: cannot believe that it is possible for professional pilots etc etc
It is absolutely nothing to do with professionalism or capability it is all to do with cognition and perception - human factors experiments Repeatedly show the brain has limits and cannot work in some ways.
Try to read this post and recite a nursery rhyme and listen to what someone is saying and read it back you cannot. Your brain has only one verbal 'cognitive channel'. A huge amount of research has been carried out in visual perception yet that is all forgotten when airports are designed. Everyone gets a degree of cognitive tunneling (focusing on a problem) when doing something challenging and that is when mis-perception can occur. This has been repeatedly demonstrated in research and happens continually in real life.
Well said.
Didn't some Delta pilots land on some taxiway in ATL some years ago. Well a China Airlines crew took off from taxiway in ANC before.
So pilots from both hemispheres made mistakes. The only difference you don't see Oriental pilots coming over to Pprune gloating ( with pride about their superiority ) over the mistakes made by westerners.