Description should include the following:
- Studies of human behavior have tried to determine an individual’s predisposition to taking risks and the level of an individual’s involvement in accidents.
- Five traits were discovered in pilots prone to having accidents. These pilots
- have disdain toward rules
- have very high correlation between accidents on their flying records and safety violations on their driving records
- can be categorized as thrill- and adventure-seeking
- are impulsive rather than methodical and disciplined, both in their information gathering and in the speed and selection of actions to be taken
- have a disregard for or tend to under-utilize outside sources of information, including copilots, flight attendants, flight service personnel, flight instructors, and ATC.
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