On doctors’ accountability and flight deck safety
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چکیده
People have an inherent tendency to view events as being more predictable than they may actually be, especially in hindsight. This predisposition is known as hindsight bias. However, putting hindsight bias aside, one should consider the discussion in the media raised by the recent Germanwings Flight 9525 air accident from a medical point of view. The probability that aircrafts are used to assist suicide is exceedingly low. We have recently estimated that suicide accounts for about 0.3% of fatal accident cases in general aviation, which would be approximately 8 cases in the USA between 2003-2012 (1); but this figure is likely to be even lower in commercial air transport. However, in commercial air transport the consequences are severe, in that one accident can cause many deaths.
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