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Lessons from a 737’s Aborted Night Takeoff in Oslo

Steve Scott

Monday, September 11th, 2006

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"Confirmation Bias" Takes Over a Cockpit In a report released July 26, 2006, the Accident Investigation Board of Norway (AIBN) described how a Gardermoen ATC controller's shouted intervention halted an underway taxiway takeoff, albeit late in the takeoff roll, by a Pegasus Airlines 737-800 on Oct. 23, 2005. The Turkish aircraft captain and the ATCO were both female. That observation may or may not be relevant to what happened. What's clear is that the incident derived from "confirmation bias," loosely…

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