CASE-REPORT OF AN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY - PRECURSER TO ACCIDENT PRONENESS

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 49  (6) , 827-828
Abstract
The socio-physiological/psychological review of an aircraft accident involving input of incorrect controls and low-altitude ejection of a student naval aviator pointed out a possibly not-so-uncommon problem, accident proneness resulting from an obsessive-compulsive nonpsychotic personality. Review of the pilot''s history reflected a perfectionist attitude since childhood with continuous associated near-serious accidents. Flight training revealed occurrences of over-correction, channelized attention and denial of errors. With the demands of naval aviation that spur the growth of the perfectionist, normal/abnormal parameters of obsession-compulsion as they present themselves must be cautiously examined.

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