Air Crash Investigation - Air France 447 and the Lake Constance Mid Air Collision

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss two airplane crashes - Air France 447 where pilots failed to manage with mechanical failures, and the Lake Constance mid-air collision where two planes crashed due to a conflict between air traffic control and plane systems. I discuss how the hand off between technology and humans is becoming increasingly important with the rise of AI. 

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Sources:

• Cognition, technology and organizational limits: lessons from the Air France 447 Disaster - Nick Oliver, Thomas Calvard, Kristina Potocnik > Andrew Maclaren
• https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877/
• https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-tragic-crash-of-flight-af447-shows-the-unlikely-but-catastrophic-consequences-of-automation
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57084090
• 99% invisible - children of the magenta
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev
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• https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/world/europe/killer-of-air-traffic-controller-barred-from-crash-memorial.html
• http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/Eurocontrol/Ueberlingen/Ueberlingen_Final_Report.PDF