Pilots use a detailed pre-flight checklist before taking passengers’ lives into their hands. So why shouldn’t operating room surgeons and nurses be subjected to the same rigorous preparation? That’s ...

With more flight experience comes more confidence. However, sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of confidence after logging hundreds or thousands of flight hours is laziness and cockiness, both of ...

Checklist design and procedures featured on the agenda of this week’s high-level ICAO safety conference following the fatal loss of a Boeing MD-82 at Madrid, and the extraordinary escape of an MD-83 ...