C Kingsbury ) wrote:
: There was an NTSB study within the past four years that looked at this
: question. I'm going on memory here, but the aggregate accident rates were
: not different in a statistically significant way. But there was a suggestion
: that the causes of accidents were somewhat different across the two groups.
That is true. And I don't think the study was in the last 4 years.

: Women, it seemed, were more likely to be involved in accidents owing to
: mishandling the aircraft, while men were more likely to make serious
: judgment errors.
My take on reading part of it was that women were more likely to folow
procedures even when they weren't the best thing to do and men were
more likley not to follow procedures when they were the best thing to do.

So it depends on whats wrong and if the best solution is in the
manual.

This report came out about the time of the ValueJet 592 accident
(May 96) and I had wonder if the procedure of "return to a maintenance
base" hadn't been a factor. The plane was very close to the big
runway at Kennedy when it was clear that there was a fire on board
and Orlando was much closer than Miami.

-tim
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