{"id":217436,"date":"2025-05-01T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/airline\/hindsight-bias-air-transport-safety-articles-by-shem-malmquist\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:10:21","slug":"hindsight-bias-air-transport-safety-articles-by-shem-malmquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=217436","title":{"rendered":"Hindsight Bias | Air Transport Safety Articles by Shem Malmquist"},"content":{"rendered":"


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More to follow, but this is a teaser for an upcoming article:<\/p>\n

Pilot Error?<\/p>\n

It is exceedingly easy (and a lot less cognitive work) to just capture the hindsight bias (a type of confirmation bias, really) aspects and say \u201cthat guy screwed up\u201d. Perhaps you can simplify it to that, but at the very least, that does NOTHING to prevent a future occurrence. It just makes you feel good as you walk away thinking \u201cthat won\u2019t happen to me because I (fill in the blank)\u201d. Not so easy to actually take a hard look at it. In a talk I gave on a related topic recently, I quoted Sidney Dekker on hindsight bias. I see these factors playing often into discussions following an aircraft accident. Here is what I said:<\/p>\n

Sidney Dekker (2007) elaborates on the problem of hindsight bias, stating it will:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 oversimplify causality (\u201cthis led to that\u201d) because we can start from the outcome and reason backwards to presumed or plausible \u201ccauses;\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00b7 overestimate the likelihood of the outcome (and people\u2019s ability to foresee it), because we already have the outcome in our hands;<\/p>\n

\u00b7 overrate the role of rule or procedure \u201cviolations.\u201d While there is always a gap between written guidance and actual practice (and this almost never leads to trouble), that gap takes on causal significance once we have a bad outcome to look at and reason back from;<\/p>\n

\u00b7 misjudge the prominence or relevance of data presented to people at the time;<\/p>\n

\u00b7 match the outcome with the actions that went before it. If the outcome was bad, then the actions leading up to it must have been bad too\u2014missed opportunities, bad assessment, wrong decisions and misperceptions (Dekker, 2007, pp. 66-67).<\/p>\n

Dekker, S. (2007). Just Culture. Farnham, England: Ashgate.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout Shem Malmquist FRAeS\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB-777 Captain. Air Safety and Accident Investigator. Previous experience includes Flight Operations management, Assistant Chief Pilot. Line Check Airman, ALPA Aircraft Technical and Engineering Chairman, Aircraft Performance and Designs Committee MEC Chair, Charting and Instrument Procedures Committee, Group Leader-Commercial Aviation Safety Team-Joint Safety Implementation Team (CAST)-Loss of Control-Human Factors and Automation, CAST-JSIT- Aircraft State Awareness. Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, full Member of ISASI, AIAA, IEEE, HFES, FSF, AFA and the Resilience Engineering Association. I am available for consulting, speaking or providing training seminars to your organization. Please contact me at https:\/\/malmquistsafety.com\/for inquiries.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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