Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit and Airbus Flight Control Design

That’s for sure. Attributing motivations to the crew after an incident without knowing what information they were looking at or how they were interrupting that information is not very productive.

Don’t want to get into on this thread (any posts going down that path will be treated as off-topic) but for example the way the weather information was processed on the El Faro was a hot mess. The incident reports focused more on specific actions of various crew members at different times but never really examined the overall picture from a weather information-processing perspective.

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