Workload and inaccurate airport ‘mental model’ led to A320 wrong-intersection take-off

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Source: AirTeamImages

Investigators have attributed an EasyJet Airbus A320’s wrong-intersection take-off at Toulouse to the crew’s limited attention capacity – a consequence of high workload – and confirmation bias.

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