People
Crashes
Low PDIs (1-5)
High PDIs (1-5)
200

Laureano Caviedes

The captain of the plane in the Avianca flight 052 crash, in January of 1990.

200
Slammed into the estate owned by the father of John McEnroe.

Avianca, Columbian airliner. 1990 January

200
The pilot PDI of Ireland

16th in the world

200

The pilot PDI of Mexico

4th in the world.

200

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.

200

Ice on the wings.

1982 Air Florida crash outside Washington, DC.

200

The pilot PDI of the U.S.

15th in the world.

200

The pilot PDI of Morocco

3rd in the world

200

Mauricio Klotz

First officer of the plane in the Avianca flight 052 crash, in January of 1990.

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VOR on the mountain.

Korean Air crash in Guam.

200

The pilot PDI of Australia

18th in the world

200

The pilot PDI of Brazil

1st in the world

200

Earl Weener

Chief engineer for safety at Boeing for many years.

200

Shot by Russian military jet.

A Korean Air Boeing 707 wandered into Russian airspace and was shot down.
200
The pilot PDI of South Africa

17th in the world

200

The pilot PDI of the Phillipines

5th in the world

200

Ute Fischer and Judith Orasanu

Linguists that studied the mitigated speech that first officers use.

200

Crashed in Seoul.

Two years later after the Boeing 707 was shot over in Russia.

200

The pilot PDI of New Zealand

19th in the world

200
The pilot PDI of South Korea
2nd in the world