Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book) cover
Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book)
by Peter W. Merlin, Gregg A. Bendrick, Dwight A. Holland
ISBN: 1780398492
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Bluestrike2 · 2014-11-30 · Original thread
Consider reading Breaking the Mishap Chain by Peter Merlin [1]. It's a pretty fascinating series of case studies where human error was a primary factor. Chapter 5 discusses the crash of M2-F2 during testing for NASA and the role that task saturation had in the incident.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Mishap-Chain-Development-Aero...