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using a checklist is a major contributing factor to aircraft accidents. According to researcher and writer Atul Gawande, the concept of a pre-flight checklist...

advanced checklist would be a schedule, which lays out tasks to be done according to time of day or other factors, or a pre-flight checklist for an airliner...

ground effect. The flight engineer was found to have failed to open the slat system bleed air valves as required on the pre-flight checklist. This prevented...

controller asked the flight crew to report when it was ready to copy the ATC clearance. Because the flight crew was performing the checklist, copying the clearance...

Airport around 2:00 pm PST (18:00 UTC). After going through the pre-flight checklist, Captain Charles Kimes, 44, let his co-pilot, Fred Miller, 48, handle...

performed a test of the oxygen mask's function during the standard pre-flight checklist.: 97, 109  The passengers were immediately evacuated through the...

damaged. 16 August 1987 – The crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 omitted their taxi checklist and failed to deploy the aircraft's flaps and slats. Subsequently...

air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis...

from any technical flaw in the aircraft. Subsequently, a mandatory pre-flight checklist prior to take-off was required. Despite the crash and its much higher...

variations exist for different aircraft types. Many of the steps in the pre-landing checklist are double-checks to eliminate the possibility of unexpected failure...

International Airport for the next scheduled flight to Malé. When they started the pre-flight checklist, Captain Perera found the cabin untidy and ordered...

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Alaska Airlines from Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, to Ontario...

cause of the crash included the flight crew's failure to enforce a sterile cockpit during the final preflight checklist procedure. In the early days of...

then push through the clouds on the way to Rome. Having neglected a pre-flight checklist, heavy fog warning from the tower, and constant warning from co-pilot...

not tell how far.: 4  The CVR provided evidence of the flight crew's omission of the taxi checklist. Although the stall warning was annunciated, investigators...

as the crew overlooked multiple critical landing systems on the checklist. The flight crew failed to arm the automatic spoiler system, which automatically...

involved in Flight 1549's emergency landing; and during the Super Bowl XLIII pre-game ceremony on February 1, 2009, Sullenberger, Skiles, and Flight 1549's...

because they did not properly use the checklists to select and check the position of the flaps and slats during flight preparation, specifically: they failed...

pilots as a mental checklist to ensure nothing critical has been forgotten before landing. Its popularity is widespread, appearing in flight student curricula...

but it was not used. The flight engineer might have reached the backup power switch (as part of an abnormal situation checklist, not as part of their takeoff...