People
Laureano Caviedes
The captain of the plane in the Avianca flight 052 crash, in January of 1990.
Avianca, Columbian airliner. 1990 January
16th in the world
The pilot PDI of Mexico
4th in the world.
Suren Ratwatte
A veteran pilot who has been involved for years in "human factors" research. Ratwatte is Sri Lankan, a lively man in his forties who has been flying commercial jets his entire adult life.
Ice on the wings.
1982 Air Florida crash outside Washington, DC.
The pilot PDI of the U.S.
15th in the world.
The pilot PDI of Morocco
3rd in the world
Mauricio Klotz
First officer of the plane in the Avianca flight 052 crash, in January of 1990.
Korean Air crash in Guam.
The pilot PDI of Australia
18th in the world
The pilot PDI of Brazil
1st in the world
Earl Weener
Chief engineer for safety at Boeing for many years.
Shot by Russian military jet.
17th in the world
The pilot PDI of the Phillipines
5th in the world
Ute Fischer and Judith Orasanu
Linguists that studied the mitigated speech that first officers use.
Crashed in Seoul.
Two years later after the Boeing 707 was shot over in Russia.
The pilot PDI of New Zealand
19th in the world