--- abstract: In this article the authority system in the airplane cockpit is related to thirty year old authority studies of Stanley Milgram. Human errors made in the cockpit are found similar to those made in the authority experiments. It is argued that up to 20% of all airplane accidents may be preventable by optimizing the monitoring and challenging of captain errors by the first officer. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Tarnow given: Eugen honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2000-10 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-10-20 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/45/66 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4566 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4566/1/ObedienceInTheCockpit.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'obedience, cockpit, airplane, pilot, flight engineer, obedience optimization' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:12 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 1 pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | Birnbach, R., & Longridge, T. (1993). The regulatory perspective. In E. Wiener, B. Kanki, & R. Helmreich (Eds.), Cockpit resource management. (pp. 263-281). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Bryant, A. (1994, Nov. 19). Chastened, T.W.A. tries again; business plan built on hope is revised. New York Times, p. 17N. EDWARDS, E. (1975, October). "Stress and the Airline Pilot." Paper presented at British Airline Pilots Association Medical Symposium, London. Ginnett, R. (1993). Crews as groups: Their formation and their leadership. In E. Wiener, B. Kanki, and R. Helmreich (Eds.), Cockpit resource management. (pp 71-98). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Helmreich, R., & Foushee, H. (1993). Why crew resource management? Empirical and theoretical bases of human factors training in aviation. In E. Wiener, B. Kanki, & R. Helmreich (Eds.), Cockpit resource management. (pp 3-45). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Merritt, A., & Helmreich, R. (1996). Human factors on the flight deck: The influence of national culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 27, 5-24. Milgram, S. (1974). Obedience to authority: An experimental view. New York: Harper and Row. National Transportation Safety Board (1994a). Controlled collision with terrain: Northwest Airlink Flight 5719, Hibbing, Minnesota, December 1, 1993. Washington, DC. National Transportation Safety Board (1994b). A review of flightcrew-involved major accidents of U.S. air carriers, 1978 through 1990. Washington, DC. Wiener,E., Kanki, B., & Helmreich, R. (1993). Cockpit resource management. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc. Zimbardo, P. G. (1974). On “Obedience to Authority.” American Psychologist, 29, 566-567. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:00:50 subjects: - soc-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'TOWARDS THE ZERO ACCIDENT GOAL: ASSISTING THE FIRST OFFICER MONITOR AND CHALLENGE CAPTAIN ERRORS' type: journalp userid: 2525 volume: 10