Emirates incident highlights electronic flight bag human factors
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The recent near-catastrophe in which an Emirates Airbus A340-500 was almost lost on take-off after the first officer mis-entered the aircraft’s weight by a single digit in the electronic flight bag has highlighted the human factor issues associated with this new technology, reports Flightglobal.
That incident at Melbourne was only the latest of several known cases involving wide-bodied planes and insiders say similar errors on narrow-bodied planes are even more common but go unreported because of their greater performance margins.
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