Operation makalu air crash:influence of cognitive and human factors on decision-making  

作　　者：Samarika Dahal Gopal Kumar Chaudhary Nitin Kumar Agrawal 

机构地区：[1]Department of Dentistry,Institute of Medicine,Kathmandu,Nepal [2]Department of Forensic Medicine,Maharajgunj Medical Campus,Maharajgunj,Kathmandu,Nepal

出　　处：《Forensic Sciences Research》2022年第4期803-807,共5页法庭科学研究（英文）

摘　　要：Two onboard crew members lost their lives in the fatal Makalu Air Cessna Grand Caravan 208B domestic cargo flight crash on May 16,2018.The Disaster Victim Identification(DVI)procedure comprises external examination,photography,DNAcollection,fingerprint collection,postmortem examination,antemortem information collection from the family members,and reconciliation.The major challenge of this operation was dealing with cognitive bias.The antemortem dental information of one of the deceased was revealed to the forensic experts just before the postmortem examination.This influenced the testing strategies.There was a tendency to neglect the complete dental examination presuming the identification was established.Later,during a thorough examination,the forensic odontologist realised that the initial decision was erroneous.Furthermore,there are few experience-based resources available to resolve cognitive bias issues.The authors begin by summarising complicated operations in which they have been involved,followed by a discussion of the key sources of cognitive bias along with the solution to resolve these issues in DVI preparedness planning.

关 键 词：Forensic sciences DISASTER cognitive bias dental identification mortuary Nepal 

分 类 号：R749[医药卫生—神经病学与精神病学]