National Plan for Civil Aviation Human Factors: 1995

In June 1995, the FAA announced its plans for a joint FAA-DOD-NASA initiative called the National Plan for Civil Aviation Human Factors. The plan detailed a national effort to reduce and eliminate human error as the cause of aviation accidents. The plan called for projects that would iden­tify needs and problems related to human performance, guide research programs that addressed the human element, involve the Nation’s top scientists and aviation professionals, and report the results of these efforts to the aviation community.[221]

NASA’s extensive involvement in human factors issues is detailed in another case study of this volume.