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Interactions between night vision and brownout accidents: the loss of a UK RAF Puma helicopter on operational duty in Iraq, November 2007

@inproceedings{Johnson2009InteractionsBN,
  title={Interactions between night vision and brownout accidents: the loss of a UK RAF Puma helicopter on operational duty in Iraq, November 2007},
  author={Chris W. Johnson},
  year={2009}
}
Night vision devices (NVDs) mitigate risks in low visibility operations through image intensification or infrared imaging. However, NVDs create new risks, including a host of human factors problems. The operation of night vision equipment has been associated with several different forms of spatial disorientation. The following pages describe how this disorientation exacerbates the hazards created by ‘brown-out’ landings that occur when visibility is reduced by airborne particles, typically… 
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Accident analysis and hazard analysis for human and organizational factors

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2011.

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The author is involved with several projects related to big data analytics, multimodal data fusion, cyber-physical security, and anomaly detection, and leads the Data and Signal Analysis (DASA) research group.

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