Anatomy of a System accident: The Crash of Avianca Flight 052

1 July 1994

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The International Journal of Aviation Psychology

Vol. 4 (3) , 265-284
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327108ijap0403_4

Abstract

On January 25, 1990, Avianca Flight 052 crashed after running out of fuel following a missed approach to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Weather was poor on the East Coast of the United States that day, and the flight had experienced several holding patterns enroute from Medellín, Colombia, to New York. The accident is analyzed in terms of Helmreich and Foushee's (1993) model of crew performance and Reason's (1990) model of latent pathogens in system operations.

Keywords

INJURY PREVENTION
HUMAN FACTORS
GROUP DYNAMICS
SUICIDE PREVENTION
ERGONOMICS
AIR TRANSPORTATION
FAILURE ANALYSIS
CIVIL AVIATION
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
HUMAN PERFORMANCE

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