Zagreb and Tenerife: Airline Accidents Involving Linguistic Factors

Autor/in	Cookson, Simon
Titel	Zagreb and Tenerife: Airline Accidents Involving Linguistic Factors
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 32 (2009) 3, S.22 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0922
Schlagwörter	Accidents; Linguistics; Interference (Language); Code Switching (Language); Language Proficiency; Air Transportation; Aviation Education; Program Descriptions; Traffic Safety; Foreign Countries; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Models; Stress Variables; Fatigue (Biology); Language Tests; Croatia; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistik; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Ausland; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Analogiemodell; Fatigue; Ermüdung; Language test; Sprachtest; Kroatien; Spanien
Abstract	The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is currently implementing a program to improve the language proficiency of pilots and air traffic controllers worldwide. In justifying the program, ICAO has cited a number of airline accidents that were at least partly caused by language factors. Two accidents cited by ICAO are analysed in this paper: the mid-air collision above Zagreb in 1976, and the runway collision at Tenerife in 1977. The paper examines the linguistic factors involved in each accident, such as code switching and L1 interference, and uses the "Swiss cheese" model of accident causation developed by Reason (1990) and adapted by Wiegmann and Shappell (2003) to put these factors into a broader aviation context. It is shown that, while linguistic factors were in each case significant, both accidents occurred as the result of multiple causal factors, many of which were non-linguistic. Furthermore, stress and fatigue played a decisive role in exacerbating the linguistic factors in each accident. Finally, the paper suggests lessons that may be drawn from the analysis for the training of pilots and air traffic controllers, both native-speaker and non native-speaker. (Contains 4 endnotes, 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Monash University ePress. Building 4, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia. Fax: +61-3-9905 8450; e-mail: sales@epress.lib.monash.edu.au; Web site: http://publications.epress.monash.edu/loi/aral
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10