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Fatigue and Alertness Management

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Fatigue was officially declared as the main cause of a commercial aircraft accident by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for the first time in 1994. Since that time, fatigue has been systematically queried as an ongoing part of the accident investigation process.

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  1. Main Airport Center, Vereinigung Cockpit e. V, Unterschweinstiege 10, 60549, Frankfurt, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Ebermann & Maria-Pascaline Murtha

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Ebermann, HJ., Murtha, MP. (2013). Fatigue and Alertness Management. In: Ebermann, HJ., Scheiderer, J. (eds) Human Factors on the Flight Deck. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31733-0_8

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