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Can Nathan Fielder Save You From Dying in a Plane Crash?
As an aviation journalist, I was skeptical of The Rehearsal. Then I talked to experts.
Fielder begins this season of The Rehearsal by identifying what he says is a dangerous blind spot in aviation culture: pilots’ inability to communicate in crisis, as demonstrated in the opening scene and in a number of other re-created real-world crashes. In the season-two premiere, Fielder meets up with John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, and shows him the text of a NTSB report on a 2009 crash advising the FAA that “role-playing or simulator-based exercises that teach first officers to assertively voice their concerns” should be required in pilot training. It’s an uncanny coincidence that, less than three months before the debut of a TV series about the dangers of poor cockpit communication, the U.S. should suffer its first fatal air crash in 16 years as a result of just such a failure.
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