ABSTRACT
All learning from experience, all thinking, all inference, is transfer: there are only differences in degree.
C. K. Lyans (1914, p. 384)
When Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash-landed in fair weather at the San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, fatally injuring three passengers and severely injuring many more, one question raised was how the flight crew could have allowed the flight speed to become dangerously slow in their final landing approach without reacting and correcting it. In fact, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s (2014) report on the crash identified pilot mismanagement of the descent as well as the complexity of the aircraft’s autoflight system as contributing factors in the incident. Among the Board’s recommendations were improved training for the pilots on the autoflight system and increased time flying the aircraft manually during training.
