How Could Poka Yoke Devices Prevent this Airline Problem?
At this time, there is no official explanation for what happened in the cockpit of that wayward airliner. There are only two things that are certain right now. • Overshooting an airport is an abnormal condition. A process failed. • Pilots are human. I feel for doctors and pilots and law enforcement. People in service professions are often caught in a lose-lose scenario. Because of the nature of their jobs, any mistakes that are made, whether the individual is at fault or not, tend to become very high profile and subject to much criticism and ‘Monday-morning quarterbacking’. In fact, I remember a while back seeing an article about how the Transportation Security Administration was overly aggressive with a search at the airport; and on the same day that there was an article about how contraband was making it through security too easily. Talk about a challenging problem! Two theories circulating about the crew of the aircraft are that they fell asleep, or that they were distracted by an a
