ABSTRACT
Technology continues to reach levels where total fail~e of aircraft components and aircraft systems has become remote. However, human error has become increasingly significant in the course of events in aviation accidents and incidents (Maurino, Reason, Johnston, & Lee, 1995). The systematic and costly failures of such technology-based industries have recognised the significance of effective training systems in terms of the prevention of human error in the operational environment. Prevention may be too optimistic; however an analysis of underlying issues seem feasible. In this paper human error is introduced in an industrial (aircraft maintenance engineering) context and further current error taxonomies are explored to map aircraft maintenance engineering error.
