Korean Air Flight 8509 crashed when the captain relied on a malfunctioning instrument, and his crew stayed silent due to rigid social hierarchies, preventing correction of fatal errors.
PSA Flight 182 collided mid-air after the crew lost visual contact with a smaller plane, compounded by a linguistic misunderstanding with air traffic control over the word “passed” versus “passing.”
Both incidents show how human factors and communication failures can cause disaster, leading to improvements in cockpit resource management and collision avoidance systems.
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