Cockpit Task Management Bibliography

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Chou, C.D., Madhavan, D., and Funk, K. (1996)

TITLE: Studies of Cockpit Task Management Errors
PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Vol. 6(4), pp. 307-320.
KEYWORDS: CTM error taxonomy, incidents, accidents, simulator, priority
SUMMARY: Three empirical studies: a review of NTSB accidents, incidents and a simulator study.   CTM errors occurred in 23% of the accidents, 49% of the incidents and CTM performance was inversely related to workload in the simulator study.

 SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTS/EXCERPTS:

CTM Error Taxonomy:

  1. Task Initiation (Early, Late, Incorrect, Lacking)
  2. Task Prioritization (Incorrect)
  3. Task Termination (Early, Late, Incorrect, Lacking)

NTSB Accidents - 30% of CTM errors were prioritization errors

NTSB Incidents - 35% of CTM errors were prioritization errors

Simulation study - task prioritization degrades as either flight path complexity or number of concurrent tasks increase.

Questions: Which accidents/incidents were CTM Prioritization Errors?

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