three airliners in fatal accidents, so united management was quick to jump on board and was quick to spend the money. to develop the course. as veteran captain al haynes recalls the training was initially received with a dose of skepticism. those captains who needed it didn t want it, and wasn t really going to do it so we thought it was a waste of time until we began to get into the flow of things, and then we understood what it was all about. coming up captain haynes has no way of knowing that just a few years later, training to improve communication between crew members will help him get through one of the most terrifying situations a pilot could ever face, a catastrophic loss of control of a jumbo jet. so, i tried depend last weekend. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise.
visibility, smooth air, very fortunate weatherwise. as we re flying along and everything is as smooth as can be and service is humming and working well as a team, out of the blue here comes this explosion. i mean, it was a huge loud explosion. but passenger rod vetter, a seasoned traveler, isn t fazed. my first thought was a bomb went off. then i realized that it hadn t depressurized so it wasn t a bomb, and then i realized it was probably an engine blowing, and my first thought was, okay, we got off a little late maybe and we re going to get right on into chicago because a dc10 can certainly fly with two engines. the explosion happens at 3:16 p.m., an hour and seven minutes into the flight. the jumbo jet is at 33,000 feet over alta, iowa. after the explosion, the plane
earlier helped save 184 lives that might otherwise have been lost. left, left, left, left, left. i was asked is there anything you would do differently today than that day and i said, yeah, call in sick. this team made very good decisions out of an airplane that was virtually unflyable. one individual no matter how skilled an airman would not have been able to do that. coming up, unfortunately, that kind of teamwork is not in play eight years later on the tiny pacific island of guam. they are burned, skin hanging off their arms and their faces. unbelievable! toenail fungus? seriously? smash it with jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. look at the footwork! most common side effects include ingrown toenail,
airlines dc8 slams down in a residential neighborhood of the captain was absolutely the one decision maker in the cockpit. you were expected to talk to him only when you had something technical to say, and it was very difficult for junior crew members to confront a senior captain. there was a strong reluctance to criticize. crm breaks down the barriers of communication between two or three crew members in an airplane. it enables pilots to act as a team and come up with a common solution, rather than individuals coming up with an individual solution. having crm training or not could mean the difference of a plane crashing or not. it may seem like a given, that this kind of training would have always been around, but it didn t even exist until 1981.
crew resource management is the training all major airlines use to improve communication for flight crews. before crm the captain was the one decision-maker in the cockpit. you were expected to talk to him only when you had something tech in this case to tech say. crm breaks down the barriers of communication between two or three crew members in an airplane and enables pilots to enact as a team and come up with a common solution rather than individuals coming up with an individual solution. having crm training or not could mean the difference between a plane crashing or not. it may seem like a given that this kind of training would have always been around, but it didn t even exist until 1981. since then, crm has been the gospel in the cockpit. it comes down to one word,