# Mental incapacitation makes pilot react later, miss information, take poor decisions and crash more often

Jonathan Deniel, Maud Dupuy, Alexandre Duchevet, Nadine Matton, Jean-Paul Imbert, Mickael Causse

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## To cite this version:

Jonathan Deniel, Maud Dupuy, Alexandre Duchevet, Nadine Matton, Jean-Paul Imbert, et al. Mental incapacitation makes pilot react later, miss information, take poor decisions and crash more often. ICCAS, May 2024, Toulouse, France. 2024. [hal-04816448](https://hal.science/hal-04816448v1)

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Submitted on 3 Dec 2024

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# Mental incapacitation makes pilots react later, miss information, take poor decisions and crash more often*

## Mental incapacitation in aviation: a scoping review

**Background:**

Mental incapacitation may be induced by acute stress, surprise, startle, cognitive overload or mental fatigue in the cockpit and sometimes results in cognitive «freeze», accidents or incidents.

There is no systematic literature review about mental incapacitation in pilots.

## Method

Sy systematic literature review

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## Typical experiment

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* 21 participants (3% ♀)

* Total = 546 pilots

* Age: 34.9yo ± 8.12yo

* Flight experience: 4539h ± 4758h

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* Approach & landing

* Take-off

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* 70% in flight simulator

* Flight data

* Eye-tracking

* ECG, GSR, EEG

* Behaviour

* Questionnaires (workload)

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* 81% use surprising event

* engine failure / stall

* automation failure

## Review results

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**Perspectives:**

The great variability in objectives, methods and results in the literature invite to increase research effort on induction, detection and consequences of Mental Incapacitation.

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*Scan the QR code to access the poster and references

Deniel J.
Dupuy M.
Duchevet A.

Matton N.
Imbert J.P.
Causse M.

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ECOLE NATIONALE DE L'AVIATION CIVILE

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Isae

Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

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