Personality Aspects of Pilot-Error Accident Involvement
Abstract
The consistently high frequency of pilot error accidents in both military and civilian aviation programs does much to support exploratory research which might help alleviate the problem. Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) and a dynamic decision making task (under risk) were given to 51 Army aviators. Accident files were then examined in order to classify the aviators as to their prior pilot error accident involvement. Stepwise discriminant analyses revealed that the decision making task scores were unrelated to the pilot error accident groupings while the 16 PF scores were able to correctly classify 86% of the aviators as to whether or not they had been previously listed as a cause factor in a military aviation accident.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0782976
Entities
People
- Alan C. Snow Jr.
- Mark A. Hofmann
- Michael G. Sanders
- Paul D. Hunt
Organizations
- United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab