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Decision Making

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Virtually 50 % of all accidents are related to “poor airmanship” or can be traced back to faulty decisions and even a lack of decision making by the respective crews.

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Bühler, J., Ebermann, HJ., Hamm, F., Reuter-Leahr, D. (2013). Decision Making. In: Ebermann, HJ., Scheiderer, J. (eds) Human Factors on the Flight Deck. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31733-0_6

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