from the beginning of flight school that their memory and judgment are unreliable and that lives depend on their recognizing that fact. Second, the checklists have proved their worth—they work. However much Pilots are taught to trust their procedures more than their instincts, that doesn’t mean they will do so blindly. Aviation checklists are by no means perfect. Some have been found confusing or unclear or flawed. Nonetheless, they have earned Pilots’ faith. Face-to-face with catastrophe, they are astonishingly willing to turn to their checklists. In the cockpit voice recorder transcript of
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