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Casner, Stephen, Richard Geven, and Kent Williams. "The Effectiveness of Airline Pilot Training for Abnormal Events." http://hfs.sagepub.com. Sage Journals, 26 September. 2012. Web. 3 November. 2014 <http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/55/3/477>

My article talked about how there was an increase in pilot errors that ended up leading to accidents due to unexpected changes in conditions, and the ability for pilots to be able to react safely to those situations. However, the irony surrounding these situations is that many pilots already trained for them and should have known how to respond to them correctly, but for some reason sometimes they didn't and this led to disaster. To try and figure out why, researchers decided to not just test pilots on procedures they knew ahead of time that they'd have to perform, but on random and spontaneous situations that the pilots already practiced but didn't know they'd have to practice that day. They found that pilots passed the premeditated  situations with flying colors, but as soon as they started incorporating the unexpected situations the effectiveness of the pilots t respond safely and correctly started deteriorating. They found that when the pilots go in to have their ability to respond to abnormal events tested they are aware of what is expected of them, and focus solely on that, and don't  necessarily consider other events that may occur. The researchers also suggested that they way of preventing the predictability of these tests and the best way to reduce airline accidents is to provide more randomization when testing pilots to put more emphasis on knowing how to recognize the event instead of just knowing how to adjust accordingly.