Eurocontrol says unintentional controller mistakes are the biggest...
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Alexander
15-04-2008, 13:04
This is an interesting report. The categorisation of the different errors must have been difficult. I am not quite sure what "mistakes" covers but giving any incorrect instruction could be classified as a "mistake" and it may skew the results completely....
Alex
"In the hierarchy of analysed contributory factors in voluntarily reported ATM incidents, "mistakes" comes top, closely followed by traffic information, operational communications, ATC clearance instructions and spoken communications. The smallest category was co-ordination."