Learn to read the primary sources
Everything in this archive is built from investigation reports. These courses teach you to read them yourself — the structure, the vocabulary and the reasoning — so you are not dependent on anybody's summary, including ours.
Reading an Accident Report
How to read a final report the way investigators write them
A final accident report is a technical document written to a convention, and most of what people get wrong about accidents comes from reading it as if it were a news story. This course teaches the structure, the vocabulary and the reasoning, using real reports.
7 lessons90 minutes2 free to read$9Why Competent Crews Crash
Human factors for people who read accident reports
Around half of all accidents get filed under human error, a statistic that explains nothing. This course covers what is actually happening when a current, qualified crew does something that later looks incomprehensible: startle, attention, mental models of the automation, the social physics of a two-person cockpit, and fatigue.
7 lessons95 minutes2 free to read$9What the Black Box Says
Flight recorders, and the difference between data and explanation
There is no black box. There are two orange ones, they answer different questions, and neither of them contains a cause. This course covers what the recorders capture, how to read a data trace without being fooled by it, what a voice transcript is and is not, and where the limits of recorded evidence actually fall.
7 lessons94 minutes2 free to read$9
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