[SystemSafety] Chicago controller halts Delta jet's near-miss on takeoff: '1328, stop, stop stop!'
Peter Bernard Ladkin
ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jun 19 07:51:43 CEST 2015
Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, University of Bielefeld and Causalis Limited
> On 18 Jun 2015, at 19:37, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
> A known problem. Quasi-ambiguous call signs.
As Chris says, not particularly rare.
Steven Cushing's Fatal Words, a book published by U. Chicago Press nearly two decades ago on safety problems in civil aviation caused through linguistic factors, has a chapter on it, I recall (I am away from my library).
Contributing factors are moderately clear. One is similar call signs. Another is transmissions being "stepped on" (partially obscured by a concurrent transmission from another). The third is cognitive confusion of some sort - someone gets the airplanes mixed up as a result of the first two. It is surprising that the issue persists after decades of attention from smart people.
PBL
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